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-contracting 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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A NASA observatory discovers dozens of 'baby' galaxies in our midst. Scientists say the newborns could tell us a lot about our own aging Milky Way. By Amit Asaravala.
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Rise before dawn on Sunday, prepare a thermos of hot cocoa, bundle up, drive to some spot where mountains don't obstruct the eastern horizon -- and watch an astronomical grouping not seen since the Civil War.
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A high, almost windless spot in the central region of the Antarctic plateau is the best place on Earth to view the stars, according to the first results from a small, automated telescope.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK have obtained the clearest pictures from space ever taken.
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Astronomers are recruiting ordinary people around the world to help classify 1 million galaxies.
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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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AMATEUR astronomers will have the chance to see the International Space Station as it flies over Irish skies this weekend.
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By casting a wide net, astronomers have captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes.
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In 2015, an array of 4400 twelve meter fully steerable paraboloid radio dishes, called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is scheduled to be complete and operational.    Astrobiology Magazine -- The project plans are being developed by a consortium of institutions headed up by Cornell, and funded by the National Science Foundation among others...
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As I write this column, I'm flying from San  Francisco to New York City for three days of meetings at the American Museum of  Natural History on bringing the latest scientific data to the public via museums  and planetariums. I look forward to working with my colleagues. I'm also eager  to gaze again at their stunning collection of fossils and to travel to distant  locations in our universe at the Rose Center and the Hayden Planetarium, the  museum's digital planetarium. ...
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By Brian McDearmon, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Jun. 22--With more people come more showers, more loads of laundry, more  lawns to water.
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It takes a village--plus moving stages and 18,000-lumen projectors--to mount the ambitious Ka.
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Years in the planning, one of the world's most powerful telescopes sees its first light over the weekend. It should be fully operational by next May.
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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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By Travis Fain, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep. 10--JEFFERSONVILLE -- Twiggs County is about to be open for business in a big way.   A new water tower is up near the intersection of Ga. 96 and Interstate 16. Stacks of big black pipes sit ready for installation.