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861-Big Bear Observatory
Big Bear Solar Observatory is a unique facility operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Its 1.6 meter Goode Solar Telescope is located o…
10 months, 1 week ago
348E-371-2 Headed Space Worm
Humans are moving towards a day when there are space colonies in orbit, on the Moon, and the planet Mars, places where the force of gravity ranges be…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
860-Worlds Largest Solar Telescope
The US National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is the worlds largest solar telescope. It is perched 10,000 feet above sea lev…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
347E-370-Life's Parts
24 hours a day, 16,600 feet above sea level in the high dry desert of northern Chile, the 66 antennas of 1.4 billion dollar Atacama Large Millimeter/…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
859-Powerful Solar Storm
After the Earth the Sun is the most important object for human beings in the Universe. It is the energy source which produces our food and is the so…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
346E-369-Finding Treasure
The energy required to lift water, food, and construction materials from the Earth's surface is very expensive. Asteroids come relatively close to Ea…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
858-Vanishing Dark and Quiet
Sadly humans seem to be in the process of creating a cosmic land fill which will blot out much of the cosmos.
11 months ago
345E-368-Asteroid Alert
When Asteroid hunters discover a new object it is given a score ranging from 0 which means it is likely to be a distant main belt asteroid up to 100 …
11 months ago
857-Gila Cliff Dwellings
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Dr. Hannes Gröller and I traveled to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument to install two night sky met…
11 months, 1 week ago
344E-367-Future Impactor
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered a 33 foot diameter asteroid which has about a 1.1% chance of impacting the Earth on 569 encoun…
11 months, 1 week ago