The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is to become a working observatory again, six decades after light and air pollution forced astronomers out of the capital. After hosting stargazers for nearly three ...

The famed Royal Observatory in Greenwich, United Kingdom, is reopening more than 60 years after London’s smog forced its closure in 1957. By the 1940s and 1950s, London’s industrialization—which ...

The historic Royal Observatory was founded in 1675 by King Charles II of England, with the goal of improving navigation at sea and reducing shipwrecks by mapping the locations of stars. The ...

For 300 years, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich Park in London was the center of the scientific world, in some cases literally—the Prime Meridian, the line of 0 degrees longitude dividing the ...

"We’re made of bits of dead stars." London -- After a 60-year hiatus, astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London are studying the sky again. The observatory, which is home to the Prime ...

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A tiny observatory on Hampstead Heath was built more than 100 years ago. With light pollution, the capital is not the best place in the world for stargazing. But with the right gear and a bit of luck ...

Near the Moon's western limb lies Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms - a vast swath of terrain spanning 1,600 miles (2,500 kilometers) north to south, and covering 10.5 percent of the lunar ...

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich in London is to become a working astronomy centre again, after more than 60 years. A new suite of telescopes has been installed in the refurbished Altazimuth ...

Overlooking the rest of the Royal Museums from the peak of the park, the northern section of this attraction of two halves looks at Greenwich’s horoligical connection. Flamsteed House, the observatory ...

In the hoopla about Halley’s comet, not much has been said about Edmund Halley, the astronomer and mathematician whose name it bears. Besides being the first astronomer to predict the return of a ...