The castings of the 15-metric ton, off-axis mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope forced engineers to push the design and manufacturing process beyond all previous limits
Just when you think it’s going to stop, they keep getting bigger. Earth for scale.
After 3 years, 150,000 miles and 3,000,000 pictures taken, Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan introduce SKYGLOW
What the moon will look like every evening for the upcoming year
“Lost in Light” by Sriram Murali explores what the night sky looks like at various levels of light pollution; from level 8 in San Jose to level 1 in Death Valley
Everything you wanted to know about the Universe in 4 funny and informative minutes
No other scientist has found such correlation in the past several hundred years of study of the Ancient civilization
The water-world Enceladus appears here to sit atop Saturn’s rings like a drop of dew upon a leaf
For the last two years, photographer Tim Dodd has never travelled without his vintage Russian space suit (an impulse online purchase).
“Ahhh so that’s what that amazing celestial event, that I totally couldn’t see, looked like!” – me every time
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