It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed ...

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You've set your telescope up and are showing people some of the wonders in the sky. Of course, they're going to ask you questions. Here are some you might be asked. How many do you know the answers to ...

For the past 40 years, I’ve driven to a radio studio in Albany, New York, to answer on-air astronomy questions. For an hour each month, the eight stations of the WAMC Northeast Public Radio Network ...

Note: There is a special note to teachers at the bottom of this post. If you’re a teacher, please be sure to check it out! My friend Tina is a teacher at the Saegert Sixth Grade Center in Austin, ...

One of humanity’s oldest sciences is astronomy when humans looked up into the stars and wondered what was there. In 1609, astronomer Galileo first used a telescope to study the stars. 400 years later, ...