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47 million galaxies: A sunning new view of our universe

Monday, April 20, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield

An international team has unveiled a sweeping three dimensional map of the cosmos that brings the distribution of galaxies into sharp relief across much of observable space. Built from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, the map charts where galaxies are located and how their positions change ...

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Optolong L2 Filters Tested: The April 2026 ScopeTrader Issue

Monday, April 6, 2026 by Richard Harris

Welcome to April, where galaxies are in full bloom. Here in Missouri the skies are finally starting to settle into something usable. If the pattern holds like it usually does, we tend to get our most stable stretch somewhere between April 10th and the end of the month. Those are the nights where ...

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Back to the Moon

Saturday, April 4, 2026 by Richard Harris

I never get tired of the Moon. Not because it is mysterious or because it needs a story to make it worth looking at. I get tired of plenty of things. The Moon is not one of them. If you have ever pointed a telescope at the terminator line and watched craters snap into contrast, you already know w...

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Galaxies previously unseen discovered with help from physicist

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Richard Harris

I chase photons that perhaps left their homes before our oceans found their tides (if you believe photos actually travel anyway). Those photons slide into a sensor as if they are shy travelers, and if I treat them with patience they will draw a picture that was always there, just hidden under the no...

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