A series of upper-level disturbances has delivered rounds of wintry weather to the high elevations of the central and northern Rockies, despite the calendar heading into late May. From NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) in the AM of 5/21: “cool and unsettled weather underneath a broad upper trough is anticipated to remain locked-in over...
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Researchers investigating the space...
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ESA’s Young Professionals Satellite, YPSat, being checked out in a cleanroom at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, in preparation for the inaugural launch of...
The ilumbra volumetric 3-D model of the radio galaxy Centaurus A.
3-D stereo vision for television and cinema are dead, again. In astronomy, however, we...