MIT joins the consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, thanks to a donation by Phillip and Susan Ragon.
Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible ...
The world’s most powerful ground-based solar telescope have given us a spectacular look at various sunspots and quiet regions of the sun in unprecedented detail with the release of eight photos ...
The ethereal beauty of outer space will be on full display next month in a new IMAX film. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the star of "Deep Sky," a documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker ...
"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." ...
The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...
Peter Strittmatter, 520-621-6524, [email protected] Roger Angel, 520-621-6541, [email protected] George Rieke, 520-621-2832, [email protected] Las Campanas, Chile — "First Light!" ...
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory focused on ...
A cosmic object in the shape of a glowing question mark has photobombed one of the latest images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope - and scientists think they know what it might be. The ...
The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say. A comet named 3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new photo of infant stars nestled in a glowing cocoon of gas and dust. The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a striking shot of the fluffy spiral galaxy ...
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Sept. 6, 1618: The first comet seen through a telescope
The fall of 1618 was a standout when it came to notable comets, boasting three visible to the naked eye. In late August, C/1618 Q1 appeared, first spotted in the skies over Hungary. Johannes Kepler ...
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