This Beginner Telescope Now Costs as Much as a Toy, Yet Comes with Two Real Eyepieces

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...
Oman Observer

Comet Swan spotted in Oman’s skies

MUSCAT: Oman Society of Astronomy and Space (OSAS) spotted and photographed Comet Swan (C/2025 R2 SWAN) in the skies of the ...
College of Natural Sciences

Taft Armandroff Elected to Chair Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...

Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors

New leadership appointed to guide the next phase of construction as Dr. Walter Massey concludes nearly a decade of service as ...
Lookout Local Santa Cruz

UCSC astronomy Ph.D. survived war and helped build Kosovo’s first observatory. Now she’s bringing the cosmos to Bay Area classrooms.

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

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life

Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...

Two FAST-discovered pulsars: Follow-up observations determine their fundamental parameters

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers from West Virginia University and elsewhere have observed two distant ...
Space.com

See 2 of Jupiter's moons cast vast shadows over the planet early on Nov. 5

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud tops of the gas giant Jupiter as the Galilean moons Io and Europa pass ...
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How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s US$10 ...

Astronomers Tracking Rare Comet—How To See From Your Backyard

Perihelion is the point on an orbital course that brings a body closest to the sun. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is an Oort cloud comet ...

Not Aliens, This Interstellar Comet May Carry Life's Seeds From Before Our Sun

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever spotted, travelling over 130,000 mph and carrying chemical signatures older than our Sun ...

UAE to witness 2025’s brightest and largest Beaver Supermoon on November 5

On November 5, 2025, the UAE will witness the Beaver Supermoon, the largest and brightest of the year. The article discusses optimal viewing locations, the significance of this celestial event, and ...