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The Royal Observatory Greenwich commemorated its 350th anniversary, having been established in 1675 by King Charles II. Its initial mandate focused on resolving the longitude problem, a significant ...

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The earth’s astronomical navel* was about to shift its position. Britain’s Royal Observatory was preparing for its first permanent move in 271 years. Left behind in Greenwich (now part of London) ...

Universal Time (UT), adopted in 1928 by the International Astronomical Union, is the time standard used in astronomical almanacs, referencing the 0° longitude meridian (Greenwich). For high precision, ...

Soar over Greenwich, United Kingdom, where the Prime Meridian of the world carves a vertical line through the historic ...

GREENWICH — More than 50 people came out to an eclipse-watching gathering at the Bowman Observatory to marvel at the otherworldly spectacle, putting on safety glasses, tracing the path of the ...

In anticipation of the upcoming equinox at Saturn, the imaging science team on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is releasing today a series of images and movies capturing scenes possible only once every 15 ...