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A telescope alone is not enough for a great observing experience. You will need the right accessories to...
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In July 1992, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made its closest approach to Jupiter, skimming 25,000 miles (40,000 km)...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 7: The Moon,...
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Charles Pevsner, taken from Rio Hurtado, Chile LHA 120-N 40 is the glowing debris of a star...
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New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal that the so-called “Roasted Planet” is getting cooked by...
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Following in the wheelmarks of Sojourner (NASA’s first Mars rover, which landed on Mars in 1997), Spirit...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 6: Catch the...
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Warren Keller/Mike Selby, taken from Observatorio El Sauce, Chile NGC 7098 is a barred spiral galaxy around...
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Rocket launches this week On Tuesday, July 7, at 3:10 a.m. EDT, SpaceX is targeting the launch...
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NASA successfully launched its mission to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on July 3, just over...
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How can it be that the Moon’s mass is a little over 1 percent of Earth’s mass,...
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The total lunar eclipse of July 6, 1982, was the longest lunar eclipse of the 20th century,...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 5: Capture a...
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Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had developed the...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 4: A conjunction...
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On July 4, 1054, a supernova explosion occurred, marking the death of a star thought to be...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 3: Glimpse the...
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Space Race pioneer Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev died July 3, 2004, in Cheboksary, Russia. Even among the first...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 2: The King’s...
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Friday, July 3Although the Moon is still bright, there’s a short window after darkness falls and before...