Syzygy describes themselves as a “queer punk rock band” on its Instagram page. Consisting of singer Lu Harper, guitarist Max Senter, drummer Cory Schmitt and bassist FJ Miller, the group has been ...

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I almost concluded it was an actual NEO and stopped looking, but I asked around on the Minor Planet Mailing List just to erase my final doubts" G told Astronomy. It was then that Jonathan McDowell ...

Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging. Think of how hard it is to estimate the distance of someone pointing a flashlight at you on a dark night. Galaxies come in a very wide range of ...

Syzygy Plasmonics and Lotte Chemical have commissioned and completed performance testing of the “world’s largest” all-electric ammonia cracking system in Ulsan, South Korea. Converting ammonia into ...

While that federal ban has been in place for decades, John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a member of AAS’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE ...

officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...

In reality, the event is more about our perspective than the planets’ literal placement—if the planets actually aligned with each other in space, “that would be called a syzygy and that’s ...

On Jan. 21, the company’s co-founder and CEO Matt Gialich told Astronomy that Astroforge had not yet settled on a target asteroid because “as a ride share customer, we don’t control our ...

It is an important event for stargazers and is colloquially called a “planetary parade”, while the official term for such an event in astronomy is a syzygy. This is not the first syzygy the Earth has ...