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• Astronomy tourism: world’s best places for star gazing

  The beauty of night is a rare occurrence in cities where twinkling stars fade behind light pollution as the sky looks dully black in the night and where the moon also loses its shine to the fumes in atmosphere. No wonder parents living in big cities take their children miles away to merely show them [...]

• The Night Sky Observers Guide Vol. 2

  Amateur astronomers today are exceptionally fortunate to be living in an era when high quality, and very large, optics are so affordable. In the first half of the 20th century the telescope deluxe for the amateur was the 6-inch refractor. However, such telescopes were so expensive that very few amateurs could afford them: the majority [...]

• Cancelled Spacecraft: Advanced Gemini, North American Dc-3, X-20 Dyna-Soar, Manned Orbital Laboratory, Mars Telecommunications Orbiter

  Chapters: Advanced Gemini, North American Dc-3, X-20 Dyna-Soar, Manned Orbital Laboratory, Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, Lunar-A, Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, Pluto Kuiper Express, Champollion, Netlander, Voyager Program, Pluto Fast Flyby, Europa Orbiter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club [...]

• Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth

  Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but [...]