No damage to astronomy centre

THE landslide near Sheikh Tahir Astronomy Centre in Balik Pulau, Penang, is said to be due to failure of the slope’s stone pitching in preventing large rocks from sliding during heavy rain on Monday.Powered by...

Astronomy: Promising views from the Tibetan Plateau

A new potential astronomical observation site on the Tibetan Plateau is detailed in a paper in Nature. Sometimes nicknamed the Earth’s ‘third pole’, this plateau, which stands at over 4,000 m above …Powered by...