Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12.9 billion light years to reach Earth. Learn how it was discovered. Credit; ...
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
Rare blue lurker star found in the M67 open star cluster Unusual rotation speed linked to stellar mergers in a triple system Hubble detects white dwarf companion with ...
Humason and Hubble became almost inseparable at the telescope, while Humason made many astronomical ... His subsequent tuning-fork diagram of the shapes of galaxies remains a classic teaching tool for ...
The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light. In the image, Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, which appears red in visible light, is a instead a ...
The primary objective of this spacewalk is to replace critical hardware and repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope. Listen to Story Williams and Hague will ...
This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away from Earth. This mosaic ...
Webb has revealed the existence of the earliest-known galaxies and black holes and unleashed a raft of unprecedented data. Webb is about 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope.