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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Sometimes in fantasy fiction, you don’t want to explain something that seems inexplicable, so you throw your hands up and say, “A wizard did it.” Sometimes in astronomy, instead of a wizard, the ...

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What is a quasar? Answers were almost as numerous as the astronomers who turned up at the Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of ...

When one thinks of astronomy, it’s easy to imagine equations on a chalkboard, late nights in physics labs or telescopes aimed ...

Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is underway. The annual event normally held the last Saturday and Sunday in January, spanning both wings of the museum has moved online ...

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