The totality occurred at 11:29:48 local time — bringing darkness and a spectral calm. Perth, Australia: Professional astronomers and amateur cosmologists flocked to a remote part of Western Australia Thursday to witness a total solar eclipse, with the moon blocking out the sun for 58 seconds. Stargazers in Exmouth, on Australia’s northwest tip, parked their […]
The Sakharov Center features exhibitions on Soviet repression and human rights. (File) Moscow, Russia: A museum emblematic of Russia’s post-Soviet human rights movement has shut its doors in Moscow amid a clampdown on freedoms since the onset of the Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine. The Sakharov Center, dedicated to Nobel Prize winning rights activist Andrei Sakharov, […]
