Our night sky appears to us like an overarching dome sprinkled with bright points of light. Some of those points of light appear to be very close to each other, and indeed the ancients envisioned the stars as all being…
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Flying Over Another World
There are currently 26 active NASA spacecraft that have left low Earth orbit (LEO) to explore the solar system and beyond. This site lists 28, but it includes the Hubble Space Telescope which is in LEO, and the Opportunity Mars…
Saturn and Its Rings
One of the most popular objects for telescopic viewing is the planet Saturn, with its distinctive set of wide and bright rings. First-time viewers almost inevitably will comment that it looks like a picture, not a real object. When the…
Planets In The Morning
One of the more pleasing aspects of astronomy is the extent to which it is utterly predictable. The North Star will never appear in the southern sky, the Southern Cross will never be visible from Virginia, and if Orion is…
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