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Oct. 12 is Astronomy Day, and Pebble Hill Plantation is offering a special program on the sun to celebrate. Randy Rhea, an astronomer, engineer, and author, will present “There’s More to the Sun than ...

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All the planets parade from sunset to midnight. Look to the west southwest as twilight fades to spot brilliant Venus. Our sister world slinks along the horizon gaining little altitude ...

Tech pioneer Charles Simonyi talks about the Simonyi Survey Telescope — and his own trips to space — in the GeekWire Podcast.

Observations were made for 13 years, resulting in a data set of 500 terabytes. The mega-project has now come to an end. But ...

The European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope has collected more than 500 terabytes of data on our galaxy.

Wakefield and District Astronomy Society is launching another taster course for people. Chairman Paul Campbell said: “Are you ...