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 ...
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Public Open Night at Schueller Observatory, 12/2
Please join student astronomers for views through the telescopes on Riverview field near the dome on Monday, December 2 from 6:30-9 p.m. Free event, all ages welcome. Park at 900 Broadway, Lowell, MA.
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Dark Sky officials get tour of Discovery Center progress in Fountain Hills
Similarly, Gonzales said the much smaller telescope dome for the observatory is being constructed off site, and it will also ...
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Fulldome space films, Mars’ soil and Lunarium. Moscow Planetarium is celebrating its 95 th anniversary
Let us talk about celestial navigation lessons for combat pilots and the first cosmonauts, interactive exhibits, a film ...
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Eagle Archives, Nov. 11, 1961: Williams trustees favor preserving observatory
The Williams College trustees plan to preserve the Hopkins Observatory, built in 1836, for its historical value and to reactivate it as a full-scale astronomical ...
Arizona has a huge new observatory. Here's everything you can see and do
The dramatic Marley Foundation Astronomy Discover Center at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has a rooftop viewing deck and ...
Giant telescope's own powerful radiation may have contributed to collapse
Powerful electromagnetic radiation from an enormous radio telescope in Puerto Rico may have fast-tracked structural damage that led to the instrument's collapse in 2020, a new report says.
The incredible £775m telescope that's biggest in world and nearly same size as Big Ben
This one-of-a-kind huge telescope will capture the sharpest and best images of space any telescope has ever done.
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A piece of space comes to Davenport: NASA's Hubble Telescope exhibit opening at the Putnam
guests at the Putnam will walk through a dome of screens displaying images from both telescopes. The middle of the exhibit ...
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Conn gifted $100,000 for new telescope and observatory upgrades
The distant celestial wonders in the sky above New London will soon be more visible than ever. An anonymous Connecticut ...