The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day represents a collective gift for troubled mankind.
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The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day represents a collective gift for troubled mankind.
Continue readingBy William J. Furney It’s not just a big world out there, but an enormous, gargantuan universe that’s so impossibly large — and growing — that it’s barely possible for
Continue readingBy William J. Furney The lucky crew aboard the International Space Station are to get a new, multimillion-dollar loo. It’s costing the American taxpayer $23 million and will enable those
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Humans have not set foot on their nearest celestial satellite for half a century, and does anyone really care? Fifty years ago today, two American men
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Why are observatories painted white? Wouldn’t a natural shade of green be better, so they’d blend in with the environment and not stick out like an
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Richard Branson is playing tennis four times a day. The wealthy British businessman, who is nearing 70, is doing this, we are told, to get fit
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