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This borehole was drilled in the Core Shed area of the McLaughlin Natural Reserve. This area is a grassy flat with low shrubs and a few introduced trees, and the Homestake Core Shed houses archived ...
This is the task of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), a facility at Haleakala Observatory on the Hawaiian island of Maui, previously known as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) ...
Most values are the precipitation in the 24 hours to 9 am on the day indicated. Days marked with → are part of a longer accumulation, which is shown on the final day. Values over 100 mm have been ...
The astronomical initiative originated from a 2023 collaboration between China's National Astronomical Observatory and Chile's Catholic University of the North, planning a space observatory in the ...
The astronomy project stems from a 2023 agreement between China’s state-run National Astronomical Observatory and Chile’s Catholic University of the North to work on a powerful space observatory in ...
Sometimes the universe just stares right back at us. Vermont-based astrophotographer Michele Hernandez Bayliss has captured stunning views of Messier 94 - also known as the Croc's Eye galaxy - and ...
On Sunday, the moon blocked 23 percent of the sun in a partial eclipse, only seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which is currently studying Earth's star. The video captured the moon ...
Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) have developed a novel top veto tracker system for the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO ...
"Every modern astronomy textbook includes contributions from Hubble." For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has served as humanity's tireless eye in the sky, capturing breathtaking views of the ...
The Hubble telescope was designed to be the first space-based observatory, which could be serviced and upgraded while it remained in orbit. It was named after Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who ...
Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO) near the summit of Maui’s Haleakalā, reached a major milestone ...