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Skirts swayed across the carpet and vibrant wigs filled rooms as guests moved throughout the Memorial Student Center and Rudder Forum at the 53rd Aggie Con.  With voice actor panels, video game tournaments, board game rooms, an artist’s gallery, cosplay contest and trading-card game tournaments, the convention had events from Friday, Feb. 2 through Sunday,...

Black Parrot (Slashdot reader #19,622) pointed out a historic anniversary this week: On October 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble got a photo of Andromeda that showed that it contained a variable star, and therefore was an actual galaxy, ending the Great Debate over whether the universe consisted of anything ...

The newer space observatory found that the rate of the universe’s expansion is still not adding up.

Look for Mars and and a brilliant Venus buzzing through the Beehive star cluster, and the waxing crescent moon passing near Venus on the summer solstice.

Cepheid Variable, a student organization that promotes “all things nerds” through an accepting atmosphere, hosted a Tabletop and Dungeons and Dragons event during this year’s Howdy Week, to kick off

Polaris, the North Star, is almost exactly over the celestial North Pole, making it extremely useful for navigation. HowStuffWorks gets to know it.

Posted by Andy Briggs in Astronomy Essentials | Space | February 16, 2021 When someone says “Milky Way,” do you think of the starry pathway across our sky, or of the great pinwheel-shaped galaxy in space? Both are correct! View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Michael Zuber caught the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn – above the building in this photo – near the starry band of the Milky Way, from Terlingua, Texas, on November 11, 2020. Thank you, Michael. Do you think of th...