New Horizons flies past Pluto

The overview rejects portrayals of Indigenous Australians as passive observers without systematic knowledge.

Researchers surveyed villages across central India to document sky stories and observational traditions among Gond communities.

The study shows that familiar star patterns are not universal and can be grouped according to distinct cultural histories.

Celestial observations interact with agriculture, ritual, ancestry and community identity.

Gond astronomy continues to change, and researchers must avoid treating communities as frozen remnants of the past.

Cameras and instruments collected data on Pluto during the encounter; transmission to Earth continued afterward.

The mission studied Pluto and its large moon Charon during the same close encounter.

The flyby transformed Pluto from a distant point into a world with visible geological features.

LIGO scientists reported a signal from merging black holes recorded on 14 September 2015.

The announced result opened observational astronomy using ripples in spacetime.