Venus’s ‘Lost Moon’ returns in headlines, not the sky
On crisp evenings in the 1700s, respected astronomers pointed small refractors at a glaring white lantern in the west and…
Scientific study of celestial objects, cosmic phenomena, and the universe as a whole.
On crisp evenings in the 1700s, respected astronomers pointed small refractors at a glaring white lantern in the west and…
You think you know the Moon until a billion-plus pixels stare back. In Andrew McCarthy’s colossal 1.3-gigapixel mosaic, every wrinkle,…