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The planet Saturn photographed with an amateur telescope Grey Zone / Alamy Stock Photo When I was a teen, I joined an urban astronomy club at my school. It wasn’t popular: most nights, it was just me and a physics teacher standing on a Chicago street corner haranguing passersby to look through our telescope. In […]
The comet Neowise and the Milky Way galaxy Adventure_Photo/Getty Images One of my favourite memories of July 2020 is standing outside on a clear summer evening looking at a beautiful comet, known as C/2020 F3, or Neowise, through a shaky pair of binoculars. It was a strange period, to say the least, but stargazing made […]