2020 has been another year of progress for the European Space Agency (ESA). The launch…
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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.
A new machine learning algorithm trained only with real data has classified over 2,300 supernovae…
Three years after its initial test observations, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is…
New study determines that black holes discharge the energy in their plasma jets much farther…
Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. A Southwest Research Institute-led…
The supersharp radio “vision” of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) has…
An international research team led by the University of Bern has discovered an exotic binary…
Skywatchers are in for an end-of-year treat. What has become known popularly as the “Christmas…
This unusual lenticular galaxy, known as NGC 1947, has lost almost all the gas and…
New simulations carried out in part on the ATERUI II supercomputer in Japan have found…
Just as archaeologists dig hoping to find traces of the past, an international group of…
New work from an international team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Gregory Walth improves our understanding…
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 30 this year, and for the occasion, it’s sharing a…
As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on December 14, 2020, unbeknownst to…
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…