Cosmologists are preparing to cast their sharpest-ever eyes on the early Universe. From an altitude of 5,300 metres on Cerro Toco, in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Simons Observatory will map ...
The total solar eclipse coming April 8 is drawing everyone’s attention to the sky with renewed interest in astronomy. Count me among them. A recent visit to the Cincinnati Observatory in Mount Lookout ...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón, a location chosen for its dry air and dark skies. Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint In just ten hours ...