Rex Powell, bottom left, and Michael Heschmeyer, 11, center, both of Lawrence, try to get a bearing on Saturn with a telescope June 25 during an Astronomy Associates of Lawrence public viewing at ...

WITH astonishing versatility the Rev. Dr. M. W Davidson turns from philosophy to give us this little volume on general astronomy. The reader who has no previous acquaintance with the subject can ...

Angular measure in astronomy confuses beginners because small angles use the same symbols as feet and inches. When astronomers describe the apparent size of a celestial object, 1′ describes an angle ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered in a single pass about a dozen otherwise invisible galaxies halfway across the universe. The discovery, based on a technique that exploits ...