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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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APR 29, 2015Earth & The Environment
Tourists going to the summit of the Kilauea Volcano may catch a glimpse of a boiling hot lava lake. A molten pool atop t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 28, 2015Videos
The video tells the story of how Charles David Keeling of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, worked with ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA's Messenger spacecraft will be ending its mission with a crash landing on April 30, 2015, but that's exactly as it ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 24, 2015Space & Astronomy
Galaxies are often found in clusters, which contain many ‘red and dead' members that stopped forming stars in the distan ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 06, 2015Space & Astronomy
Neil Gehrels is constantly monitoring the skies for potentially deadly gamma ray bursts. What are gamma ray bursts? "The ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAPR 03, 2015Earth & The Environment
Tropical Cyclone 05W was born in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on April 3, west of the island of Pohnpei, when the Glob ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 03, 2015Space & Astronomy
What are those ghostly images? NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently photographed a set of green objects that are float ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have documented and taken images of a smaller space explosion that c ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 25, 2015Space & Astronomy
It turns out that astrological signs are almost all wrong, because the Earth's wobble has thrown the zodiac out of whack ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
Four identical satellites which will study the interactions between solar winds and the Earth's magnetic fields blasted ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 09, 2015Space & Astronomy
According to new research published last week, Mars once contained an ocean larger than our own Arctic Ocean and coverin ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
Supermassive black holes are known to contain strong X-rays, UV photons and fierce space winds, all combining to create ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 23, 2015Space & Astronomy
New images from NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM-Newton have finally given astronomers proof that space winds coming from sup ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 30, 2014Space & Astronomy
Because it's so large some might think our galaxy, The Milky Way, is the only one out there or even nearby but that isn' ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 19, 2014Technology
Ever since Albert Einstein revolutionized science with his Theory of Relativity, scientists have believed that major eve ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 25, 2014Space & Astronomy
About 2,000 planets have been discovered to date, making the possibility of the existence of intelligent alien life seem ...Written By: Peter MicheliMAY 26, 2014Space & Astronomy
In order to understand the star that produced a supernova that was discovered last year, researchers at the Weizmann Ins ...DEC 19, 2013Space & Astronomy
NASA launched its latest solar observatory, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), in June of 2013 to improve ...
APR 29, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Tourists going to the summit of the Kilauea Volcano may catch a glimpse of a boiling hot lava lake. A molten pool atop t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 28, 2015
Videos
The video tells the story of how Charles David Keeling of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, worked with
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 27, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA's Messenger spacecraft will be ending its mission with a crash landing on April 30, 2015, but that's exactly as it
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 24, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Galaxies are often found in clusters, which contain many ‘red and dead' members that stopped forming stars in the distan
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 06, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Neil Gehrels is constantly monitoring the skies for potentially deadly gamma ray bursts. What are gamma ray bursts? "The
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
APR 03, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Tropical Cyclone 05W was born in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on April 3, west of the island of Pohnpei, when the Glob
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
What are those ghostly images? NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently photographed a set of green objects that are float
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 27, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have documented and taken images of a smaller space explosion that c
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 25, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It turns out that astrological signs are almost all wrong, because the Earth's wobble has thrown the zodiac out of whack
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Four identical satellites which will study the interactions between solar winds and the Earth's magnetic fields blasted
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 09, 2015
Space & Astronomy
According to new research published last week, Mars once contained an ocean larger than our own Arctic Ocean and coverin
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Supermassive black holes are known to contain strong X-rays, UV photons and fierce space winds, all combining to create
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 23, 2015
Space & Astronomy
New images from NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM-Newton have finally given astronomers proof that space winds coming from sup
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 30, 2014
Space & Astronomy
Because it's so large some might think our galaxy, The Milky Way, is the only one out there or even nearby but that isn'
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 19, 2014
Technology
Ever since Albert Einstein revolutionized science with his Theory of Relativity, scientists have believed that major eve
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 25, 2014
Space & Astronomy
About 2,000 planets have been discovered to date, making the possibility of the existence of intelligent alien life seem
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
MAY 26, 2014
Space & Astronomy
In order to understand the star that produced a supernova that was discovered last year, researchers at the Weizmann Ins
...
DEC 19, 2013
Space & Astronomy
NASA launched its latest solar observatory, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), in June of 2013 to improve
...