In 2005, when South Africa and its partner countries in Africa submitted a proposal to host the world’s largest radio telescope, called the Square Kilometre Array, the continent had five ...
University of Virginia astronomer Charlie Tolbert will be recognized for his 40-year teaching career at the university with an award and a $500 check from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a ...
Astronomer Vera Rubin spent much of her career at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. She's best known for convincing the world that dark matter exists.