CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Around 1800, an English schoolmistress named Margaret Bryan wrote several well-regarded textbooks on astronomy and physics for young women. While Bryan corresponded with some of the ...

ALTHOUGH primarily intended for students in civil engineering, this book is admirably adapted for a larger class of readers. A book on practical astronomy must necessarily take a lot of the ...

All sky view of the Milky Way taken by the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you’ll likely learn that they are “dead ...

UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Alex Filippenko, Ph.D., started as a student member of the Santa Barbara Astronomy Club* in the 1970s. Join us to learn about Dr. Filippenko’s life in ...

Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they are 'dead stars' that continuously cool down over time. Astronomers are challenging this theory after ...