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How a 19th century astronomer can help you watch the total solar eclipse

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In July 1878, six women scientists, their attendants, a photographer and an artist gathered in Colorado on a panoramic plateau at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. The group had a shared mission: Observe a total solar eclipse. Leading the expedition was celebrated astronomer Maria Mitchell, the first American to discover a comet.  

The eclipse captured national attention. The transcontinental railroad, completed the previous decade, made viewing the event accessible to people across the country. Mitchell and her crew —

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The ULTIMATE starry night: Arizona observatory is offering a $1,350 stargazing SLEEPOVER, complete with dinner, dorms and your own private astronomer to explain constellations

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An Arizona observatory is providing unrivaled views of the night sky as part of a thousand-dollar package that offers guests the full astronomer experience.

The National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, a federally-funded research center, has been welcoming overnight visitors for almost three decades.

The Overnight Telescope Observing Program, or OTOP – which starts at $945 for a single room and reaches up to $1,350 for a double – appoints four guests ‘visiting astronomers’ at one of three designated telescopes.

‘We are

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Weltraumforscher werden Teil-Cyborgs, um sich anzupassen, sagt Astronomer Royal

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Warum Weltraumforscher, die versuchen, auf anderen Planeten zu überleben, wirklich zu Cybermen werden können

  • Moderne Weltraumpioniere könnten eine Mischung aus „Fleisch, Blut und Elektronik“ werden
  • Lord Rees sagte: “…Forscher auf dem Mars werden aus den Fängen der Aufsichtsbehörden sein”
  • Innerhalb einer Generation könnten die Marsforscher zu einer ganz anderen Spezies werden
  • Die Entdecker könnten nahezu unsterblich sein, sodass sie den Weltraum länger erkunden können

Von Lewis Pennock für die Daily Mail

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Astronomer captures photos of distant nebulas from a telescope in his East Ayrshire back garden

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A Scottish amateur astronomer has captured stunning photos of distant nebulas and other astronomical marvels from a telescope in his East Ayrshire garden. 

Bryan Shaw, 28, has spent hours tracking the night sky to produce stunning images of the nebulas and star clusters thousands of light years away. 

Shaw, who is currently a broadcast production student, routinely sets up his specialised telescope in the garden of his home in New Cumnock, a town in East Ayrshire, to snap the night’s

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Astronomer captures footage of 3,280ft asteroid as it nears Earth

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An astronomer has captured footage of a huge asteroid 3,451 feet in diameter as it made its closest approach to Earth in almost 90 years.

Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) could be seen as a small white dot as it travelled towards our planet at around 19:00 GMT on Monday (January 17). 

The following evening, at 21:51 GMT (16:51 EST) on January 18, the asteroid made its closest approach to Earth since 1933, coming within 1.2 million miles of our planet. 

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Britain’s star attractions: Astronomer captures dazzling cosmic shows in the skies above the UK

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Clear night skies are quite a rarity in Britain – but when the clouds do break, the cosmos is always ready to put on a show, as these incredible pictures reveal in mesmerising fashion.

They’re all taken by Dan Monk, 30, an astronomer and the Director of Astrophotography at Kielder Observatory in Northumberland.

One photograph captures the majesty of the Milky Way, which he explains is ‘roughly 100,000 light-years’ away from the Earth, while another illustrates the Andromeda Galaxy –

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The James Webb Space Telescope Wants to See It All

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In the beginning, the universe was dark. The Big Bang had electrified the cosmos into existence, and the new landscape buzzed with particles, chaotic and hot, before cooling off into a calm expanse of hydrogen and helium. Then something began to happen in the fog. Gravity drove pockets of gas to collapse in on themselves and ignite, creating the first stars. The radiant orbs began to cluster, forming the first galaxies: messy, misshapen things, not as polished as

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