June 30, 2025
Scanning the heavens at the Vatican Observatory




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Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help bridge the chasm between religion and science. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists and students for whom the Church’s observations of the heavens are a means to unite people beyond faith.

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