OTD In Space - November 15: Green Bank's 300-Foot Telescope Collapses
On November 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. It happened at 9:46 p.m. on ...
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The World’s Tallest Glass Tree Returns to Yerkes Observatory
The 36-foot art installation, crafted from recycled glass, gives visitors the chance to add their own touch to the piece.
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The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
Humans Are Divided and Unhappy. What Better Time to Contact Alien Life?
Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...
An inside look at Lowell Observatory's Discovery Center in Flagstaff
It's a new science center in Northern Arizona that's "out of this world" and stands three stories tall, boasts 400,000 square feet and cost over $53 million.