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Ten years ago, astronomers were monitoring the departure of Comet Halley from the inner solar...
Less than a year from now, in November 1997, the first pieces in mankind’s most...
There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and main sequence dwarves...
Every year, people make a point of watching the sun rise on New Year’s Day,...
One of the greatest difficulties in astronomy is that of getting a feel for the...
For the astronomy buff, recent decades have been a time of unprecedented and, at the...
As this is written my watch, a device smaller than many a postage stamp and...
As the year draws towards its close, so the splendid arch of the Milky Way—such...
As this is being written Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is but a few days away from...
