When you hear about big science projects like a huge new telescope or a miles-long particle accelerator, it’s usually in the context of the big science discoveries they’ve made. But before anyone can ...
Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...
Space has always been a wonder to even those who lived before us. Is Earth the center of the Universe? Is Earth flat? Well, the answer to those two is no. But that did not stop people from believing ...
Students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology next year will be able to get a glimpse from &#8220down under” in Terre Haute while operating a telescope in Australia via the Internet. A $141,634 ...