One of Canada’s most renowned astronomers and amateur astrophotographers has died, leaving behind a legacy of pioneering ...

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Way back in 2008, Canon — the stalwart Japanese camera brand — released its EOS 5D Mark II model, which heralded a new era of digital photography. It was one of the first DSLR (which stands for ...

The first test images from a groundbreaking observatory in Chile named for trailblazing American Jewish astronomer Vera Rubin have been dazzling stargazers, capturing the light from millions of ...

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Based on Xuanzang’s account, Nalanda Mahavihara had an observatory tower, which could have been used to track the movement of the celestial bodies and calculate time accurately. Pataliputra (Patna), ...

As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence depended on a celestial accident some 66 million years ago, when “an asteroid coincidentally ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own order requiring a Texas county to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects ...

Chris Lintott tries to observe everything from asteroids zipping through the Solar System, to distant galaxies. The way the cosmos reveals its secrets is a story, he thinks, deserves an audience. Luck ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — For two years, the St. Tammany Parish Public Library System has been caught in the middle of a book battle. “We stand before you today because we, in short, are under attack, ...