The world’s largest telescope will be the Square Kilometer Array, and when it starts peering…
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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.
While using infrared spectra from the Spitzer Space Telescope to analyze the dust in several…
The power of the Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to amaze. Pictured above is the…
This rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was located 70 million light-years away, 21 Mpc, in the Eridanus…
While studying SN 2011fe and using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, researchers…
Quasars, which are powered by supermassive black holes, are among the brightest objects in the…
To better understand how galaxies continue to turn one solar mass’s worth of matter per…
By the standards of space-based astronomy, NASA’s new NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope that…
Scientists aren’t sure how quasars form, how they develop in time, or how (or what)…
While looking over data from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and…
Missed by previous surveys, astronomers using FourStar found 30 red galaxies, which form the earliest…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers probed the atmosphere around the transiting super-Earth known as…
Researchers targeted 42 nearby active galaxies and used data from the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton…
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered buckyballs in a solid form around…
The Crab Nebula (NGC 1952) is easily visible through small telescopes, which has allowed astronomers…
New astronomical simulations suggest that the enormous swirls of stars surrounding the NGC 5907 galaxy,…
Researchers are hoping to further unlock the mysteries of planet and star formation and study…