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Siding Spring Observatory: Coonabarabran, Australia's Astronomy Capital

By: Carolyn M Cash

The Invention of the Telescope: First Made in the Netherlands - But Designer's Name Still Disputed

By: Linda N. Riggins

History of Mount Wilson Observatory: Hooker 100" Telescope, Expanding Universe and Scientific Discoveries

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

The Hubble Space Telescope: Astronomy Got a Shot in the Arm with the Exciting Images of Hubble

By: George Garza

The Telescopes Galileo Made: How He Built Them – An Original and Replicas Now Touring Museums

By: Linda N. Riggins

40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing: July 20 1969 Marks Man's First Walk on the Moon

By: Feature Writer Kelly Whitt

Galileo's Discoveries Using Telescopes, 1609-10: Credited As the First to Make the Spyglass Essential in Astronomy

By: Linda N. Riggins

Comet Blamed for Tunguska Explosion: How the Space Shuttle and Noctilucent Clouds Solved the Mystery

By: Feature Writer Kelly Whitt

Astronomy in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After: Astronomical References in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Poem

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Star Names and Their Meanings: Origins and Translations of Major Stars

By: Feature Writer Kelly Whitt

How Stars Are Named: The Historic and Current Methods of Naming Stellar Objects

By: Feature Writer Kelly Whitt

Astronomy in Locksley Hall: Astronomical References in Poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Popular Poem

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Abbot and the Solar Constant: Early Attempts to Measure Variations in the Sun's Luminosity

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Tycho Brahe's Astronomy: Accurate Observations, Planetary Positions, Supernova, and Comet

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

The Dog Days of Summer: The Hot Season's Nickname Originates with the Brightest Star Sirius

By: Feature Writer Kelly Whitt

Discovery of Helium in the Sun: Spectroscopy, Coronium, Nebulium, and the Periodic Table

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Percival Lowell and Martian Canals: Lowell's Speculations about Water and Life on Mars

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Jansky's Early Radio Astronomy: At Bell Labs Karl Jansky Discovered Celestial Short-Wave Signals

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Ptolemaic Geocentric Astronomy: Ptolemy's Geometric Devices Deferent, Epicycle, Eccentric, & Equant

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Ptolemy, Astronomy, & Almagest: The Ancient Greek Ptolemaic Geocentric Astronomical System

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

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