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One hundred five years ago tonight, astronomers Heber Curtis and Harlow Shapley were debating the distances of some of our ...
April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...
In an awe-inspiring image recently released by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Hubble Space Telescope has ...
In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...
Ancient red cliffs, roaming bison, prairie wildflowers, and star-filled skies – Blue Mounds State Park offers a Minnesota ...
Blue Mounds State Park in Luverne might be the state’s best-kept secret – a place where 100-foot quartzite cliffs rise ...
At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest and clearest night skies ...
On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed into Earth’s orbit, beginning a decades-long venture into ...