Once you know how to use a star map, finding your way around the night sky is easy. Credit: Creators.com illustration I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six ...
If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium ...
When, in 2023, Star Wars: Ahsoka made it clear that much of the plot would hinge on finding missing pieces to the astronomical map, Star Wars fans heaved a collective deep sigh. Here we go again. In ...
The manuscript pages have been very carefully handled before scanning. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Researchers are painstakingly reconstructing the oldest-known ...
Scientists are using X-ray imaging to recover erased astronomical text, hoping to find fragments from Hipparchus’s star catalogue. Courtesy Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator ...
At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, researchers focused a powerful X-ray machine on pages of parchment from a medieval desert monastery, looking to reveal ...
What is a star map? -- Non-European cosmology and constellation development -- European cosmology -- European constellation development -- Early European star maps -- The "Big Four" of the Golden Age ...