As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on December 14, 2020, unbeknownst to…
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Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth’s atmosphere, including stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, black holes, and the vast cosmos itself. It explores the origins, evolution, and fate of the universe through observation, theory, and cutting-edge technology such as telescopes, space probes, and satellite missions. From mapping distant galaxies to detecting exoplanets and probing cosmic microwave background radiation, astronomy connects physics, mathematics, and chemistry to unravel the mysteries of space and time—revealing our place in the universe and inspiring ongoing discoveries across astrophysics and cosmology.
Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA’s fully assembled…
On December 10, 2020 (Hawaiʻi Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998…
Low-Metallicity Globular Star Cluster Challenges Formation Models On the outskirts of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy,…
https://youtu.be/7SPmcugRQX8 What is OPAL? OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) is a project to obtain long…
https://youtu.be/O2UZf6i3Hhk This video is a full-globe map of the distant planet Neptune, created from Hubble…
Team of international collaborators detect ‘external field effect,’ a prediction unique to MOND, rival dark…
Chemical signatures give away the distance to the most distant galaxy. A team of astronomers…
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has…
Today (Monday, December 14, 2020), South America will be treated to an eclipse of the…
The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic…
Using Planck data from the cosmic microwave background radiation, an international team of researchers has…
Solar Orbiter’s latest results show that the mission is making the first direct connections between…
Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, and its planet, Proxima Cen b…
Seyfert galaxies are distinguished by their bright nuclei and radiation from highly ionized atoms. Seyferts…
A meteor is a rocky or metallic body that enters the Earth’s atmosphere (or the…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory launched on December 2, 1995. A joint mission between the…
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336…