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Constellation Series: Orion

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Since the dawn of human history, we have looked up into the night sky and found patterns in the stars.  Some of us saw animals, others saw gods and heroes, but we all agreed that they were greater than our simple existence. In this blog series, we will take a deeper look into the constellations that Astronomers use to map today’s night sky.  We will look into the history of each of the 88 constellations and the stars and objects that form them, to discover more about our culture, and our connection with the universe. Our first constellation on the list is bright, large,...

Earth’s Twin Discovered!

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Since the explosion of exoplanet science in the late 1990s, our entire understanding of the universe beyond our own solar system has changed.  We have confirmed over 1,000 planets orbiting other stars, with another 3500 waiting to be confirmed by subsequent observations.  As we search, our prime directive has always been to improve our technology to determine if other Earths exist, and to seek them out.  Every year we have added another discovery that brings us closer to finding a twin of the planet Earth in space.  Today we have come one step closer, and it is indeed a big step....