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Category: Astronomy

A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens

Post date November 6, 2025
Post author By OC
Post categories In Astronomy, design, Fashion, History

Discover the Oldest Book of the Americas: A Close Look at the Astronomical Maya Codex of Mexico

Post date November 5, 2025
Post author By Colin Marshall
Post categories In Astronomy, books, History

Introducing Caelus

Post date October 31, 2025
Post author By Rémy Hannequin
Post categories In Astronomy, rails, ruby, webdev

Calibration of Radio Polarization Data: Enhancing Correlation Between CHIME and Dwingeloo Surveys

Post date October 8, 2025
Post author By Tomography
Post categories In Astronomy, faraday-rotation, faraday-synthesis, faraday-tomography-with-chime, interstellar-medium-(ism), polarization-maps, radio-astronomy, radio-polarization

Faraday Rotation and Depth: Measuring Galactic Magnetic Fields with Radio Polarization

Post date October 8, 2025
Post author By Tomography
Post categories In Astronomy, faraday-rotation, faraday-synthesis, faraday-tomography-with-chime, interstellar-medium-(ism), polarization-maps, radio-astronomy, radio-polarization

How Science Fiction’s Clarke Belt Became our Geostationary Satellite Reality

Post date September 19, 2025
Post author By Ivy Hackwell
Post categories In Astronomy, global-space-industry, satellite-networks, satellites, satellites-tech, science fiction, space-industry, spacetech

How Science Fiction’s Clarke Belt Became our Geostationary Satellite Reality

Post date September 19, 2025
Post author By Ivy Hackwell
Post categories In Astronomy, global-space-industry, satellite-networks, satellites, satellites-tech, science fiction, space-industry, spacetech

How to calculate the best days for planetary observation

Post date September 1, 2025
Post author By Rémy Hannequin
Post categories In astronoby, Astronomy, programming, ruby

Download a 417-Megapixel Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy—A Decade-Long NASA Project in the Making

Post date January 21, 2025
Post author By OC
Post categories In Astronomy

Lagrange Points Gateways to the Future of Space Exploration

Post date June 29, 2024
Post author By Eric Dequevedo
Post categories In Astronomy, innovation, space

How to Use Python to Create Custom Star Maps for Your Next Stargazing Journey

Post date April 20, 2023
Post author By Summer He
Post categories In Astronomy, data-science, python, space-exploration, stars

Behold Colorful Geologic Maps of Mars Released by The United States Geological Survey

Post date January 18, 2023
Post author By OC
Post categories In Astronomy, maps

The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon (1840)

Post date July 21, 2022
Post author By Josh Jones
Post categories In Astronomy, photography

The First Photographs Taken by the Webb Telescope: See Faraway Galaxies & Nebulae in Unprecedented Detail

Post date July 13, 2022
Post author By Colin Marshall
Post categories In Astronomy, technology

Astronomical computing – Ep 2

Post date April 14, 2022
Post author By Rémy Hannequin
Post categories In Astronomy, programming, ruby

How to Decode NASA’s Message to Aliens

Post date January 12, 2022
Post author By Josh Jones
Post categories In Astronomy, Science

Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten Updated to Reflect Our Modern Understanding of the Universe

Post date January 10, 2022
Post author By Ayun Halliday
Post categories In Astronomy, Film, Science

The Amazing Engineering of James Webb Telescope

Post date December 30, 2021
Post author By Colin Marshall
Post categories In Astronomy, technology

The Brilliant 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot

Post date September 2, 2021
Post author By Ted Mills
Post categories In Astronomy, Science

17th Century Scientist Gives First Description of Alien Life: Hear Passages from Christiaan Huygens’ Cosmotheoros (1698)

Post date August 27, 2021
Post author By Josh Jones
Post categories In Astronomy, Sci Fi, Science

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Changed Astronomy Forever; Her Ph.D. Advisor Won the Nobel Prize for It

Post date August 5, 2021
Post author By Josh Jones
Post categories In Astronomy, gender, History, Science

The Sounds of Space: An Interplanetary Sonic Journey

Post date July 29, 2021
Post author By Colin Marshall
Post categories In Astronomy, Science

Watch an Accurate Reconstruction of the World’s Oldest Computer, the 2,200 Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, from Start to Finish

Post date June 14, 2021
Post author By Josh Jones
Post categories In Astronomy, History, Science

A Finnish Astrophotographer Spent 12 Years Creating a 1.7 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo of the Entire Milky Way

Post date March 22, 2021
Post author By Josh Jones
Post categories In Astronomy, photography

Researchers Develop a Digital Model of the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, “the World’s First Computer”

Post date March 18, 2021
Post author By Josh Jones
Post categories In Astronomy, History, Science

The Little-Known Female Scientists Who Mapped 400,000 Stars Over a Century Ago: An Introduction to the “Harvard Computers”

Post date March 2, 2021
Post author By Ayun Halliday
Post categories In Astronomy, gender, Harvard, Science

The Surface of Mars Shown in Stunning 4K Resolution

Post date February 18, 2021
Post author By OC
Post categories In Astronomy, Travel

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