This Solar Eclipse Simulator Helps You Find the Best Place to Watch From
A total solar eclipse is coming to North America on April 8. The Great North American Eclipse, as it has been dubbed, will be visible across 13 US States, plus …
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How Will the Solar Eclipse Affect Animals? NASA Needs Your Help to Find Out
In other anecdotes, onlookers have reported birds that stop singing, crickets that stopped chirping, or bees that return to their hive, reduce their foraging, or suspend their flight during total …
Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?
If you live in the US and missed the last total solar eclipse in 2017, good news! You’re about to get another chance. There will be a total solar eclipse …
‘Material realities’: German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans’ unedited views of the world on display in Hong Kong show
Six years after his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returned to the city recently with his unfiltered, unedited and altogether untouched images. “The Point Is Matter”, …
How to View April’s Total Solar Eclipse, Online and In Person
It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar eclipse in almost a decade. Even though the last solar eclipse in North …
Lunar lander launched, separated successfully in latest U.S. moon attempt
A moon lander was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by …
Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
But the solar system contains more than two masses. In fact, it started as a big cloud of dust without any planets and without the sun, and every speck of …
How to Convince Your Flat-Earth Friends the Earth Is Round
Illustration: Rhett Allain You can see that we have a right triangle with the hypotenuse equal to the distance from the observer’s eyes to the center of the Earth (R …
An unexpected superhero inspired a remarkable Bay Area astronomer’s passion for teaching
For Andrew Fraknoi, it all began with comic books. The astronomer was 8 years old when he first thumbed through their pages, soaking up illustrations of star-studded galaxies — and …
Unraveling cosmic mysteries from an otherworldly ‘little town’
Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton has telescopes pointed toward other worlds, but it’s pretty otherworldly itself. And despite lasers that can rob the unwary of eyesight, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, wildfires, …