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A visit to Ecuador’s astronomical center

A visit to Ecuador’s astronomical center

[ad_1] The Observatorio Astronómico de Quito is housed in a beautiful Victorian building in the heart of Parque Alameda. Credit: David Boehnlein Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, is perched on the mountainous backbone of the Andes, which run through the center of...

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Earth from Space: São Paulo, Brazil

[ad_1] This radar image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows the city of São Paulo and part of the homonymous state in southeast Brazil.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles to learn more. While standard radar images are usually...

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Juice deployments complete: final form for Jupiter

Juice deployments complete: final form for Jupiter

[ad_1] Science & Exploration 26/05/2023 3670 views 90 likes Flight controllers at ESA’s mission control centre in Germany have been busy this week, working with instrument teams on the final deployments to prepare ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) for...

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A visit to Ecuador’s astronomical center

Astronomical hoaxes throughout the ages

[ad_1] The lithograth, featured in the New York Sun newspaper, depicts "Vespertilio-homo” or man-bats found on the Moon. (Credit: Benjamin Henry Day (1810-1889)) Following the July 2022 release of the first James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images —  a haunting deep...

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