After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student ...

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

In early 2024 Astronomy Magazine Editor Dave Eicher spoke to Celestron’s CEO, Corey Lee, about a new product that seems poised to change amateur astronomy. Celestron’s Origin Intelligent Home ...

Krstanovic recently built an observatory at his house in Windham, N.H. Before he added the domed structure, he didn’t star-gaze as often as he liked because of the time and effort involved in setting ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Mobile apps and AI processing are making things a lot easier for would-be stargazers, who no longer have to fiddle with focusing using cold fingers or even track and identify celestial objects – smart ...

That's a lot of standard candles. June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Ariz. (KGUN) — Amado’s Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is preparing to reopen its Science Center this Friday, October 4th, following a pandemic-related closure. The revamped ...

George Ellery Hale initiated the establishment of Yerkes Observatory in 1892, securing funding from Charles Yerkes for a facility to house two 40-inch telescope lens blanks. Construction commenced in ...