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If, like me, you are a bit of a cartophile, then From Streets to the Stars: 500 years of maps is for you. It is a small but ...
Hanging over its shoulder is what appears to be a map of the Pleiades, the cluster of stars sometimes called the Seven Sisters. Inside the bull painting, there are also indications of spots that may ...
In its first attempt to study the direction of the light or the solar wind’s movement, the spacecraft captured color-coded ...
Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...
In recent years moviegoers have been treated to a myriad of superhero movies.  This month’s Colorado sky hosts a ...
‘Reading of the Stars’ comes the evening before the Matariki Dawn Service at Te Whareorahi, the Park Rd Reserve, just before ...
The 'V' shape of the Hyades star cluster is visible near the top of the image, with the well-known Pleiades star cluster ... in order to create a new map of the visible sky.
The WFI-1 and WFI-3 instruments also captured the soft glow of zodiacal light on April 16, with the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters and ... in order to create a new map of the visible sky.
Strawberry moon will be at full illumination June 11, the latest of the full moons tied to Native American tradition.
Described by Capture the Atlas as an "extraordinary milestone," the image One in a Billion, was captured by NASA astronaut ...