Perched atop the windswept heights of Chile’s Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its ambitious survey of the night sky, capturing the universe in unprecedented detail with the world’s largest digital camera. In its very first ten hours of operation, the...
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LOS ANGELES – NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects.
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Many of the targets in the celestial...
After 50 years of searching the heavens with radio telescopes to try to contact alien life, so far the attempts of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
So is there another way to try to find aliens in our galactic neighborhood? Some...