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'Galileoscope' Brings Low-Cost Starwatching to Kids

A low-cost telescope designed to help students around the world appreciate the wonders of the cosmos is now available in a special edition to celebrate the 2015 International Year of Light.

Stringerbell3406d ago

I remember taking an intro to astronomy at my University. The professor went on about how unless you spending an exorbitant amount of money on a telescope its waste to give one to a child. I couldn't disagree more, sparking that interest is the most important thing imo.

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James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black hole growing

The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.

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NASA radar images show stadium-sized asteroid tumbling by Earth during flyby

The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).

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Radar images reveal damage on Europe's doomed ERS-2 satellite during final orbits

Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.