Friday, August 26, 2022

These are the Best Telescopes for Stargazers in Light-Polluted Cities

08/26/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

The best telescopes for stargazers in light-polluted cities
 Alan Dyer

Don’t let bright lights prevent you from exploring cosmic sights.

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Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid
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Interpreting 5 ancient constellations across cultures
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For thousands of years, different civilizations have attached stories and symbolism to the same starry configurations in the night sky.

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Ask Astro: Why will DAVINCI drop through Venus' atmosphere so quickly?
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OBSERVING

The sky this week
Dominique Dierick (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central. 

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The green glow
John Vermette from Tucson, Arizona

Green airglow from excited oxygen atoms fills the skies over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This image is a composite mosaic; sky images had an exposure time of 15 seconds and foreground images were exposed for 90 seconds. All images were taken at f/1.4 and ISO 3200.

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