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I am grateful to be one of the many who called Sheriff Joe Richards mentor and friend. He showed me the ropes in more ways than one, including how to ...

The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.

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The Sun isn’t just a distant ball of fire—it’s constantly bombarding Earth with charged particles in the form of solar wind. NASA’s PUNCH mission is set to capture this invisible force like never ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Photonics researchers have demonstrated how self-imaging of light, a phenomenon known for nearly two centuries, can be applied to cylindrical systems, facilitating unprecedented control of light's ...

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The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich hover between the sublime and the syrupy, occasionally touching down on either side of that surprisingly narrow divide. There are the ravishingly misted, ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

The Grand Banquet offers an immersive experience of the royal feasts of France’s 18th century — with a seasonal menu by Michelin-starred Alain Ducasse for today's exacting epicureans.