Science news articles about 'royal observatory greenwich'

... at the National Maritime Museum, will reveal how 19th-century astronomers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, used the daily and periodical press and popular science books to bolster support for the ...

Alok Jha speaks to David Rooney,the curator of time at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

... that the moon appeared much larger and brighter than it usually does.Or, as the blog of the Royal Observatory Greenwich noted a little more scientifically: "On average, the Moon is 378,000 km away, ...

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, is staging an exhibition of some of the most spectacular images of Saturn and its moons captured by Nasa's Cassini-Huygens craft

Shortlisted images in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition organised by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

... Lahav from University College London. We also pay a visit to the very centre of space and time (on Earth at least), The Royal Observatory Greenwich. Take a visual tour around the historic ...