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An observatory is a location or structure used to study animals, geological, or astronomical changes. Observatories can be ground based, space based, or airborne.
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MAR 08, 2017Space & Astronomy
There exists a type of star so rare that only 7 of them are known to exist in our Milky Way galaxy, and one of those was ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 25, 2017Space & Astronomy
Black holes are some of the universe’s strongest sources of gravitational forces. They are so powerful that they c ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 18, 2017Space & Astronomy
The Northern Lights are normally seen in various high-latitude parts of the world, including polar regions and in the sk ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
The Sun is the closest star that we can observe; unfortunately, it’s so bright that we can’t look directly a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
The Milky Way is full of stars; some are closer to our Solar System than others, but some of the most distant that still ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 20, 2017Space & Astronomy
You probably remember the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which was proposed by billionaire Yuri Milner and astrophysi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
What if we told you another star some 64 light years away from us is on a crash course with the Solar System? Well, it t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 08, 2017Space & Astronomy
Fast radio bursts, also known as FRBs, are seemingly coming from everywhere in space these days, and astronomers are ver ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 05, 2017Space & Astronomy
A joint effort between international astronomers may have helped to make an important discovery regarding the Sun, the v ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
A new study into the distant star systems that we discover and observe with the Kepler space telescope and more suggests ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
There appears to be a star similar to our own Sun some 300 light years away from our own that has a nasty habit of devou ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
At the beginning of December, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) discovered an excessively-large coronal hole ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that astronomers get the chance to see stars forming in space, but it goes without saying that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers had the rare opportunity to view the photons from a source of gamma ray emission from an explosion that happ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 16, 2016Plants & Animals
One might say there’s a lot of ivory in the world thanks to all the elephants who involuntarily gave their lives f ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using the MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, international astronomers h ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after observing a stellar flare-up with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
If you step outside on November 14th, you might be able to observe what’s known as a Super Moon. Thi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 27, 2016Microbiology
The International Space Station has opened up myriad opportunities for scientists and the application of their research ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
We know that the universe is big – really big – and that there are a ton of galaxies out there that contain ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Typically, we find supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, just like we find other entities of space in cer ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
MAR 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
There exists a type of star so rare that only 7 of them are known to exist in our Milky Way galaxy, and one of those was
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Black holes are some of the universe’s strongest sources of gravitational forces. They are so powerful that they c
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The Northern Lights are normally seen in various high-latitude parts of the world, including polar regions and in the sk
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The Sun is the closest star that we can observe; unfortunately, it’s so bright that we can’t look directly a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The Milky Way is full of stars; some are closer to our Solar System than others, but some of the most distant that still
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 20, 2017
Space & Astronomy
You probably remember the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which was proposed by billionaire Yuri Milner and astrophysi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
What if we told you another star some 64 light years away from us is on a crash course with the Solar System? Well, it t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Fast radio bursts, also known as FRBs, are seemingly coming from everywhere in space these days, and astronomers are ver
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 05, 2017
Space & Astronomy
A joint effort between international astronomers may have helped to make an important discovery regarding the Sun, the v
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A new study into the distant star systems that we discover and observe with the Kepler space telescope and more suggests
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There appears to be a star similar to our own Sun some 300 light years away from our own that has a nasty habit of devou
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
At the beginning of December, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) discovered an excessively-large coronal hole
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that astronomers get the chance to see stars forming in space, but it goes without saying that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers had the rare opportunity to view the photons from a source of gamma ray emission from an explosion that happ
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 16, 2016
Plants & Animals
One might say there’s a lot of ivory in the world thanks to all the elephants who involuntarily gave their lives f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using the MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, international astronomers h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after observing a stellar flare-up with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
If you step outside on November 14th, you might be able to observe what’s known as a Super Moon. Thi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 27, 2016
Microbiology
The International Space Station has opened up myriad opportunities for scientists and the application of their research
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
We know that the universe is big – really big – and that there are a ton of galaxies out there that contain
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Typically, we find supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, just like we find other entities of space in cer
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard