The article explores the challenge of visually detecting variations in the Moon's apparent size, which are caused by its changing distance from Earth during perigee and apogee, amidst perceptual ...

This is one of my favorite stories. In short, one of John Burk's (@occam98) students wanted to launch a space balloon. If you want all the details, this post at Quantum Progress pretty much says it ...

The Resistance is trying to make a quick getaway before the First Order arrives. Then—boom! It's too late. They're already here—two Star Destroyers just arrived near the planet in space. This is the ...

Intuitively, we all know that when we see an image of an object, it could either be large and far away or small and close by. Only with a three-dimensional measurement can we actually know what's ...

Astronomers from Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) and the Michelson Science Center at the California Institute of Technology have directly measured the ...

AFTER the successful measurement of Capella as a double star by Prof. A. Michelson's interferometer method applied to the 100-in. reflector at Mount Wilson, it was known that he intended to attempt ...