New infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers
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Month: May 2020
Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos
Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos Cosmologists had only
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The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle
The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle This much we knew: some 66 million years
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The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr.
Sky Writer: The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr. | The Underground Bunker Every serious amateur
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What is a Plossl eyepiece?
What is a Plössl eyepiece? Plossl are some of the most popular low cost eyepieces for telescope users. A
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Sun ‘less active’ than similar stars
The Sun is less magnetically active and shows less variability in its brightness than similar stars in the galaxy,
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