We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).
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The Sky Today on Thursday, September 25: Pallas stands still
Asteroid 2 Pallas is stationary at 7 A.M. EDT in the constellation Aquila. At 10th magnitude, this space rock is a bit of a ...
The Moon passes 4° south of Mars in Virgo at 11 A.M. EDT. The pair is briefly visible - along with Virgo's brightest star, Spica - for a short time after sunset this evening. You'll need to be fast, ...
On the night of July 19, 1952, the 48-inch Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory in California was taking one of its routine photographs of the night sky. It was part of the First Palomar Sky Survey ...
Bourbon production at Buffalo Trace Distillery has been connected to the Kentucky River for decades. A plaque at the ...
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received more than 40 eyewitness reports describing the same event, most clustered around ...
Unrivaled will be announcing its 2026 roster over the course of the next week via social media. On Monday, it announced ...
Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.
Daniel W.E. Green at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, suggests that comet SWAN will hover near magnitude of +6, ...
A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, revealed millisecond ...
Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days.
A companion star may have stripped silicon layers. This provided a new window into stellar death. Astronomers have observed the inner layers of a dying star through a rare type of stellar explosion ...
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