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After decades of development, whether NASA's Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.
If there really is another version of you out there in a parallel universe, what can that teach us about reality?
The most massive nearby stars could be the seeds our supermassive black holes need. The problem with the Universe, as we see it today, is that we only get a snapshot […]
If we ruin the night sky too severely, ground-based astronomy could suffer tremendously. Here’s why space is no replacement. There is an existential threat to astronomy as we know it, […]
In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, leading to a revolution in astronomy. But for many purposes, Earth is still the best place to be. When you think about what’s […]
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Among the many things about America that the American Civil War changed was its art. Painting and sculpture simply couldn’t be the same. In these sesquicentennial years, every aspect of […]