Originally produced in 1996, Meade ETX 90 is the first telescope to be designed for both beginners and professionals alike. At the time, this telescope was also the first affordable alternative to high-end products such […]
This month offers some spectacular sky gazing opportunities, including throughout the whole of April the planets Mars and Saturn being seen low in the south-southeastern sky in the constellation of Sagittarius, and later joined by […]
At the time of writing, the news of the death of Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA has reverberated around the world. Widely regarded as the greatest cosmologist of all time, Hawking was the Director […]
Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, is just one component of a complex of prehistoric monuments that is covered by the UNESCO World Heritage program, and also includes the village of Avebury and its associated sites. However, […]
The image above shows the interior structure of Europa, a major moon of the planet Jupiter, but the smallest of its four Galilean moons. The band of blue in the picture depicts a 100 km-thick […]
Many questions about ancient civilizations remain unanswered, but perhaps the most perplexing of these questions are these: how well did the ancients understand the world they lived in, and how did they express that understanding, […]
It is said that not everything that glitters is gold, but does this also apply to figurines carved into mammoth ivory fragments during the Ice Age? The Ach Valley tusk fragment that bears the image […]
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