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Sky This Month: May 2024
Astronomy Magazine· 15 hours agoThe evening sky loses its last planet early in May, shifting the attention of planetary observers to the morning. Try to glimpse Jupiter before it’s lost...
Unistellar Odyssey Telescope Brings Powerful Simplicity to Backyard Astronomy
Gizmodo· 5 days agoBackyard astronomers benefit from the robotic telescope revolution, but the quality of these...
Here's why we should put a gravitational wave observatory on the moon
Phys.org· 2 days agoIs the moon the right place for a new gravitational wave observatory? Sending telescopes into space...
ZWO Seestar S50 review: bringing smart telescopes to the masses
Digital Camera World via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNor is there a citizen science option, as seen on other smart telescopes. Seestar comes from the...
Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds
Live Science via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoSupermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic...
Backyard Universe: The April eclipse and looking ahead to future ones both solar and lunar
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoIf they had ever been totally within the moon’s shadow under a clear sky they would know it. They...
Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoThe Mt. Wilson Observatory changed the conception of humankind’s place in the universe and revealed...
'It doesn't get less spectacular': First female Maid of the Mist captain relishes her journey
The Buffalo News· 53 minutes agoKaitlynn McHenry looked ahead through the wheelhouse window. Right before she steered the electric...
Editorial: TMT’s new tactic to sell telescope | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 1 hour agoIt’s been a quiet period for the historically high-energy debate over the future of Mauna Kea,...
Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“It's a huge monetary and environmental toll to put an observatory up in space, so I think it’s...