A replica of the earliest surviving telescope attributed to Galileo Galilei, on display at the Griffith Observatory. Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Mike Dunn Few scientists and astronomers have had the same impact Galileo had. Even fewer are regarded as pioneers in the sciences, or revolutionary thinkers ...
Lunar eclipse: Free talks and telescope viewing at Griffith ObservatoryBy Mary Forgione
Griffith Observatory plans a 4½-hour-long webcastbeginning on October 8th at 1:15 a.m. PDT (8:15 UT). Meanwhile, Gianluca Masi has assembled an international team of photographers for hisVirtual Telescope Project webcastat 6:00 a.m. EDT (10:00 UT)....
[28] detected a period of 3.32 ± 0.15 h toward 2MASSW J0746425 + 200032 by using the 1.83-m optical telescope of the Vatican observatory, pointing out that the observed period of 124.32 ± 0.11 min of the radio pulses at 4.86 GHz is associated with the secondary star in the binary ...