Ga. astronomy village fills up quickly
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The most important rule at this remote vacation spot is simple: no white light. Even a sliver of the pupil-dilating rays coming from the window of a cabin at Deerlick Astronomy Village could ruin a neighbor's view of the Milky Way. The 96-acre village in rural Taliaferro County in eastern Georgia is designed for amateur stargazers looking for total darkness and wide-open spaces to build weekend homes.
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Among a batch of new planets, found by the Hubble telescope on a small patch of sky in Sagittarius, are as many as five that orbit their home stars in less than a day.
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Astronomers have produced some amazing pictures using a remarkable new instrument on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii.
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By Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jan. 31--The Advanced Camera for Surveys, the workhorse main camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope since it was first installed in March 2002, might have taken its last breath-taking photograph that has brought humankind to new vistas of outer space.
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Monday's flyby, the first visit in 33 years, is expected to render new images and data that can shed light on the origins of the solar system.
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Astronomers reveal one of the clearest images obtained of Stephan's Quintet.
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SPACE.com / A new census compiled by astronomers contains the location of every local galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center.
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HILO, Hawai&#39;i - A new camera at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope atop Mauna Kea will be able to capture images 3,600 times larger that those taken by the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers said.
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At just past 6:30 am Pacific Time today, the mountain-size asteroid came within four times the distance of the moon to the Earth - a comparative measurement
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Nearly four decades ago, psychologist Stanley Milgram had a volunteer stand stock still on a busy New York sidewalk and look up at the sky. About one in every 25 passersby stopped to look up, too. When five volunteers were recruited to sky-gaze, nearly one in five passersby stopped to look up.
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A telescope arms race is taking shape around the world. Astronomers are drawing up plans for the biggest, most powerful instruments ever constructed, capable of peering far deeper into the universe Â and further back in time Â than ever before.
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Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night. It&#39;s the Geminids.
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PPARC -- UK radio astronomers at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, working with colleagues from Europe and the USA, have demonstrated a new technique that will revolutionise the way they observe.     To create the very best quality images of the sky, they routinely combine data from multiple telescopes from around the world Ã¢ÂÂ a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)...
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The latest image from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope highlights a stellar blast that was first discovered by an amateur astronomer a little more than a month ago.
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Astronomers are recruiting ordinary people around the world to help classify 1 million galaxies.
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By RICK CALLAHAN   Associated Press writer  OMEGA, Ind. -- Take a walk on a clear, dark night far from city lights and be prepared to be awed by a sky blanketed with stars of various magnitudes, the Milky Way's wispy arm and brilliant planets.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) launched a space observatory named Swift last week to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes.