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A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

The Wilderness Center will host a free "Astronomy Day" on March 21 featuring speakers and planetarium shows.

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By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

An upcoming book from presenter and author Dallas Campbell collects both iconic and lesser-known images of space, from ...