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As climate change has led to more severe weather, wildfires, storms and more, many people are thinking about how to save what ...
Clyde Tombaugh is shown on his family farm in Kansas with a telescope he built himself; shortly after this photo was taken, he went to work at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
Discovered in 1930 after a nearly year-long telescopic search by a young observatory assistant named Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto is so faint and so distant—its 248-year orbit averages 3.7 billion ...
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Cold, ...
Levy was a close friend of Clyde Tombaugh, who died in 1997. He wrote the biography "Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of Planet Pluto." "The Earth has much more in common with Pluto than with, say ...
Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Cold, dark and ...
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto on Feb. 18, 1930, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Percival Lowell, the observatory’s ...
Trevor Tully, left, and Eva Marie Dragos, right, of Sedona, Ariz., kiss a bust of Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Tuesday, July 14, 2015.
Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...
"The two of us together — we're using this as an occasion to explore elements of who and what we are, and how we became who ...
The booths and counters at Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue begin to fill with early lunch diners on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 in Raleigh, N.C. The historic restaurant has been a fixture in downtown ...