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Staunton River 2025 Spring Star Party registration
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 by Richard Harris
The Staunton River Spring Star Party is set to return from March 24th to 30th, 2025, and registration is officially open. The event promises to be another incredible gathering for astronomy enthusiasts. Star party entry fees are set at $110 for the full week and $60 for the weekend (Thursday through...
Edwin Hubble won the Great Debate
Thursday, November 7, 2024 by Richard Harris
I live in the Ozarks, just about 15 miles from Edwin Hubble's birthplace. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) continues to fascinate me - both for the incredible views it has provided us and the profound questions it keeps raising about our universe. By the onset of the 20th century, the field o...
Subaru Telescope inspires JWST Firecracker discovery
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 by Richard Harris
The stunning image of a “firecracker” at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy recently released by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), would not have happened without previous observations of the same area by the Subaru Telescope. The Subaru Telescope (left, Credit: NAOJ) and ...
NGC 5668 galaxy examined by Hubble
Monday, September 16, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively near to us at 90 million light-years from Earth and quite accessible for astronomers to study with both space- and ground-based telescopes. At first glance, it doesn’...