NASA's New Horizons deep-space probe has, for the first time, returned images to Earth that showed stellar parallax, or how the positions of stars shift when seen from two different places. This could ...

It isn't easy to measure the distance of stars. We can't travel to them, counting the miles as we go, nor can we simply say that brighter stars are closer and dimmer ones more distant. Instead, we ...

Queen guitarist (and astrophysicist) Brian May, a member of the New Horizons science team, uses his patented OWL viewer to check out the stereo images of Proxima Centauri that he created by combining ...

No, but it was considered. The reason parallax measurements weren’t taken with Voyager or any other interplanetary spacecraft is simply that astronomers can do better from the ground or with dedicated ...

SOME years ago Dr. Chase, of the Yale University Observatory, communicated to the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America the results of a survey which he had carried out, in collaboration ...

If you’re lost somewhere on the earth, you can use GPS or public landmarks to find your way back. Navigation in the vastness of space isn’t so easy, however — especially if you’re on a spacecraft ...

THE Observatory of Yale College has acquired a deservedly high reputation for the zeal with which the staff has prosecuted the inquiry into stellar parallax and the standard of accuracy consistently ...