We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye...
Astronomy
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one...
You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? suggests a telescope. The modest instrument...
Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As...
Neutrinos are exceedingly common in the Universe, with billions of them zipping around us throughout the day from a variety...
AMSAT-Deutschland will host the Bochum Space Days event September 19-21. The event takes place at the Bochum Observatory with a...
GREEN BANK, W.Va. (WBOY) — For the first time ever, residents are allowed to use certain wireless internet in the...
When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of...
If you look at this solar generator from , you might think it’s somehow familiar. That’s because the design was...
Telescopes are great tools for observing the heavens, or even surrounding landscapes if you have the right vantage point. You...
Open Research Institute (ORI) has begun an ambitious effort to bounce radio signals off Venus and back to Earth. A...
We hate to admit it, but whenever we see an article about either Voyager spacecraft, our thoughts immediately turn to...
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler made groundbreaking contributions to physics, and has a fantastic writeup about the man. He was undeniably...
Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty...
What a difference a week makes when it comes to HF propagation! This last week has been characterised by solar...
Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the hazards our universe...
Move over, eclipse. There’s a new star in town. A nova outburst is expected to be seen in the night sky...
There are many facets to being a radio hobbyist, but if you’ve ever had the urge to dabble in radio...
During the historic April 8 total solar eclipse, a government radio station in Colorado started sending out slightly shifted "time...
Millions of people across the United States got to see a rare solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024. The...
The solar eclipse might not have been fully visible from Utah, but that didn’t stop a group of Tooele students...
Amateur radio operators from the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub set up stations at Parkersburg South High School Monday to monitor...
Science students at the University of Scranton are getting a once-in-a-lifetime lesson Monday. Through NASA-supported research, students are looking at...
Inside the Adirondack Sky Center and Observatory’s Roll-Off-Roof-Observatory on Friday, amid an auditory cloud of radio chatter, machine tones and...
In one of nature's most spectacular visual displays, on April 8, 2024, the sun will align with the moon and...
