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Backyard radio telescope
Sunday, August 10, 2025 by Richard Harris
To celebrate a major milestone, the amatuer astronomer Angela Collier decided to take on something many space enthusiasts only dream about, building a working radio telescope in the backyard. What began as a casual idea turned into a hands-on citizen science project involving soldering, assembl...
NSF-DOE Rubin first look
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will release its first imagery today at a livestreamed event in Washington, D.C. The imagery will show cosmic pheno...
Great Orion Dark Sky Festival
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
The Great Orion Dark Sky Festival is an annual celebration of astronomy and the wonders of the night sky, organized by the Eastern Sierra Observatory. Scheduled for March 27th to 30th, 2025, this immersive event will take place in Panamint Valley, California, adjacent to Death Valley National Park. ...
SPHEREx launch and telescope details
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
NASA's pursuit of understanding the cosmos is set to take a significant leap forward with the upcoming launch of a new sky-mapping space telescope, the SPHEREx space telescope, which is scheduled to launch on February 27, 2025. The launch will take place from Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg...