To better understand how galaxies continue to turn one solar mass’s worth of matter per…
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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.
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…
One hundred and seventy years ago, astronomers thought that a series of explosions on the…
In extragalactic astronomy, a Lyman-alpha blob (LAB) is a huge concentration of gas emitting the…
Using computer simulations, a team of astronomers found that when galaxies collide and form starbursts,…
Recent gamma-ray observations of Tycho’s supernova remnant (SN 1572) by the space-based Fermi-Large Area Telescope…
When massive stars accumulate more iron than they can hold, they explode in what…
The Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) will allow Italian astrophysicists to measure the frame-dragging effect of…