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In an interview, Brother Guy. J. Consolmagno, S.J. shares his thoughts about where both science and faith can go wrong. bit.ly/4866kwH
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#PopeFrancis greets officials of the Roman Curia, including Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican astronomical observatory. The pope seemed to recognize that his job involves looking up at the stars.
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The 19th-century refractor owned by Msgr. Michael Bouchet of Louisville, Kentucky is now fully functional, and has been showing people both the sky and history.
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Join us for our next Full Moon Meetup with our guest Dr. Daniel Britt -Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Central Florida.
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This GivingTuesday, please help support the education and outreach efforts of the Vatican Observatory Foundation.
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Podcast with Br. Bob Macke SJ, curator of meteorites at the Vatican Observatory, and 3D printing guru!
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A new entry for the Vatican Observatory Faith & Science Resource Center: A discussion of Jesuits and the Effect that drives hurricanes.
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Fr. Juan Casanovas SJ, Jesuit solar astronomer who served as an astronomer and librarian for the Vatican Observatory, has had an asteroid named after him
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Why do we do the things we do? This question can span many topics.
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Astrology books for the young are enjoying surge in popularity -- at least on the shelves of my public library. They invoke science, but make no sense at all.
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An overview of the life and work of Elizabeth Blackwell, oriented towards younger readers.
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The Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft was the first asteroid sample return mission - and it almost didn't make it home!
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A new entry for the Vatican Observatory Faith & Science Resource Center, for younger readers but older ones as well. The title says it all.
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Frank Borman, Commander of NASA's Apollo 8 mission has died. He visited the Vatican Observatory less than 2 months after his flight to the Moon in 1968
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If we give up light pollution to help solve the climate change problem, is that not a positive thing?
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NASA's Lucy mission discovered that asteroid Dinkinesh's companion is actually a contact-binary
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Sometimes battle of science versus religion do not turn out the way we think of those battles turning out -- and we can be glad for that.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Crab Nebula, and its simply amazing!
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Owen Gingerich, astronomer and historian of science at Harvard, looks at a modern understanding of the universe versus that of Luther or the Psalmist.
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