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- Feb 27, 2021
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Mars missions can inspire next generation scientists, papal astronomer says
- Feb 20, 2021
As Perseverance, the latest probe on Mars, gears up to send to Earth high-definition images, video and audio of its surroundings, one papal astronomer said he hoped the fresh new discoveries will inspire future explorers.
Jupiter, Saturn to put on ‘Christmas Star’ show at winter solstice
- Dec 9, 2020
A once-every-two-decade conjunction involving the solar system’s two gas giants will give earthbound observers a look at a so-called “Christmas Star” on the winter solstice.
Life on Venus? Proof God is bigger than we think, Vatican astronomer says
- Sep 17, 2020
The Vatican’s top man on all things outer space has cautioned against getting too speculative about recent findings from a group of astronomers suggesting there could be life on Venus, but said that if anything living does exist on the planet, it doesn’t change the calculus in terms of God’s relationship with humanity.
Vatican astronomer becomes 11th Jesuit to have an asteroid named for him
- Jun 23, 2020
Father Chris Corbally, a stellar astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, has had his name attached to a rocky body in the asteroid belt that orbits the sun in slightly less than four years.
Father George Coyne, astronomer, promoter of science-theology dialogue, dies
- Feb 13, 2020
Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, who led the Vatican Observatory as its director for 28 years, got his start in the field of astronomy as a young student in formation for the priesthood by secretly studying under his blanket, flashlight in hand.
Through crackly transmission, these two eavesdropped on Apollo 11 landing
- Jul 21, 2019
The NASA astronauts didn’t know it, but WHAS radio technician Larry Baysinger and his journalist friend Glenn Rutherford had tapped the frequency of the 12-watt radios — walkie talkie-type communicators — used by Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Armstrong on the moon’s surface.
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