Sunday, December 20, 2020

Mon.: Winter Begins & Great Conjunction: Jupiter & Saturn; Tue: Ursid Meteors

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This diagram shows the position of the Earth, in relation to the Sun, at the time of the Winter Solstice, as well as the other solstice an...
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Monday, December 7, 2020

Lasers Help Large Chile Telescope Provide Better Stellar Images

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  Image issued by the European Southern Observatory, which graphically illustrates the use of lasers to provide a clearer image of the Carin...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Astro-Calendar: 2020 Dec. / Great Conjunction: Jupiter & Saturn on Winter Solstice

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This computer representation shows the positions of Jupiter and Saturn at the time of the dedication of the 10-inch Siderostat-type Refrac...
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Sunday, November 15, 2020

Live Web-cast Sun. Night: Historic SpaceX, 1st Operational Astronaut Launch

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Photograph of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, which will be launched Sunday. The Crew-1 mission will launch thre...
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Friday, November 13, 2020

Friday the 13th: Only 2 in Leap Year

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 This photograph shows the late children's television host, Fred Rogers, with the hand-puppet King Friday the 13th, used to prevent chi...
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Sunday, November 1, 2020

Astro-Calendar: 2020 Nov. / Centennial: Commercial Radio Broadcasting

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One of the earliest photographs (circa 1921) of the broadcasting studio of KDKA-AM radio in Pittsburgh (original studio located at the Westi...
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Monday, October 19, 2020

Watch Live Tue.: NASA Probe Grabs Asteroid Rocks to Bring Back to Earth

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Asteroid 101 955 Bennu, compiled from 12 images photographed by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission on 2018 December 2. (Image Sources: NASA, Wiki...
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