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Earth’s Largest Camera Takes 3 Billion-Pixel Images of the Night Sky
At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a digital camera that will create an unparalleled map of the cosmos.
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Space Myth Busted: NASA Confirms Earth's Largest Human-Made Structure Isn't What You Think
For generations, a popular belief has held that the Great Wall of China is the only human-made marvel visible from space. But ...
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10 Best Places to See the Milky Way Without Light Pollution
The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...
Earth's newest telescope could discover Planet 9—and solve other huge mysteries
No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...
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Northern lights and glowing noctilucent clouds collide in a rare night sky show over Alberta (photo)
Aurora chaser and photographer Harlan Thomas ( @TheAuroraGuy) was about 18.5 miles (30 kilometers) north of Calgary along a ...
Diminishing night sky: Light pollution from cities and satellites is making stars harder to see
Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time, marked by the reappearance in the night sky of the ...
Earth is absorbing too much sunlight: It’s a waking climate giant
However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...
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Did light exist at the beginning of the universe?
Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...
Matariki and our diminishing night sky: light pollution from cities and satellites is making stars harder to see
About half of all New Zealanders can no longer see the Milky Way in winter due to light pollution from ever brighter cities ...
Stellar flybys have not altered Earth's climate in the past 56 million years, study finds
If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, the moon moves through light and shadow, and the sun hangs in the sky. But ...
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'Nothing short of spectacular': ESA's Biomass satellite releases 1st views of Earth from orbit (photos)
New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.
These are the first images from Earth’s giant new telescope
The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...