Temperatures hit minus 20.6 atop Mount Washington Thursday morning
The air temperature at the summit of Mount Washington dropped to minus 20.6 degrees Thursday morning. Wind gusts exceeded 100 ...
With the Otto Road Ski Race, Mount Washington sees special, once-a-year traffic from backcountry skiiers
GREEN’S GRANT, N.H. – While it takes place at the “home of the world’s worst weather,” the Mount Washington Otto Rhode Ski ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
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Celebrating New Year’s Day on a Mountaintop
On New Year’s Day, I traditionally hike to a mountaintop to celebrate the new year. However, this New Year’s Day, 2025 was not conducive or inviting for a ramble along a mountain trail. It was rainy ...
The First Monster Black Hole Ever Imaged Is Changing Before Our Eyes
First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...
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Granite Geek: Electrifying the Cog Railway is straightforward but not easy
In their 156 years of climbing to the summit of Mount Washington, the Cog Railway locomotives have gone from burning wood to ...
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Google to change map names for Gulf of Mexico, Denali Washington, Jan 28: Google says it will take its cue from the US ...
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How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.