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Sperrgebiet by Vikas Chander. Image credit: Vikas Chander/Royal Greenwich Observatory. The nominees are in! A sampling of the 140 photos shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year ...

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England – near London – once served as the center of navigation worldwide. It is still considered the "dividing line" between eastern and western time zones and the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Happily telling stories about travel and discovery around the world. Everyone knows the name Greenwich. “Gren-itch,” not ...

The Royal Observatory Greenwich celebrates its 350th anniversary today. Founded by King Charles II on June 22, 1675, the observatory was tasked with solving “the longitude problem,” the lack of ...

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is to become a working observatory again, six decades after light and air pollution forced astronomers out of the capital. After hosting stargazers for nearly three ...

SIXTY years ago, the Royal Observatory Greenwich stopped stargazing and became a museum and science centre. It set out to inspire the next generation of astronomers, and to illuminate the rich history ...

WHEN Charles II decided in, 1675 to found an observatory for “rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so-much desired longitude of ...

Paddy Rodgers said the Observatory's rich history showed the power of human knowledge and the need to avoid "dependence" on ...

THE Royal Observatory was founded in the reign of King Charles II. to assist in the solution of the important and difficult question of determining longitude at sea. The use of the method afterwards ...