Light pollution significantly impacts our connection to the stars and poses risks for future generations. This video explores ...

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Democratising Archival X-ray Astronomy (DAXA) is an easy-to-use Python module for downloading multi-mission X-ray telescope data and processing it into usable archives. Users can acquire entire ...

DAXA is a Python module designed to make the acquisition and processing of archives of X-ray astronomy data as painless as possible. It provides a consistent interface to the downloading and cleaning ...

Since its founding in 1894, Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has been a beacon of astronomical discovery, its scientists famously identifying Pluto and revealing the expanding universe. Now, Lowell ...

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the early 1500s. The analysis contributes to challenging the “lone ...

The Boötes Void, a supervoid spanning approximately 300 million light-years, contains significantly fewer galaxies than expected, despite its size. Despite its distance of 700 million light-years, ...

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At a solar observatory in the Maya city of Xochicalco, in Mexico, sunlight passed through a disk at ground level and shined down a long hole into a cavern below, allowing observers to track the sun’s ...

Radio astronomy has changed how we view the universe, with radio telescopes allowing the retrieval of information beyond visible light by observing radio waves emitted from various astronomical ...