And you thought gamma-ray bursts were spectacular! Well, they are: Those titanic stellar explosions vastly outshine complete galaxies and shoot out tenuous...
Author - Tejas Sharma
Venus is the brightest planet and Neptune is the faintest. Right? While there is no doubt about Venus’s brilliance, it turns out Neptune might not always be...
Comet SWAN (C/2020 F8) makes an appearance at the start of dawn north of Duluth, Minn. on May 19. The photo conveys the comet’s small apparent size and...
M3 is the first of many bright globular clusters to appear in the early evening sky during “globular season.” Photo courtesy Ron Brecher One of my...
Comet SWAN: Yet another dud crumbles away. Comet SWAN (C/2020 F8) has unexpectedly plummeted in brightness down past 6th or 7th magnitude, instead of...
New Images of Newborn Planets New observations of PDS 70, a star 370 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, have confirmed the existence of two...
An artist’s conception of the Roman Space Telescope. NASA NASA has announced that the WFIRST mission will now be known as the Nancy Grace Roman Space...
The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) in Canes Venatici is one of the most magnificent face-on spiral galaxies. This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope...
An artist’s concept shows what one of the earliest known disk-shaped galaxies might look like.NRAO / AUI / NSF / S. Dagnello When the universe was just 1...
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have untangled the constantly changing brightness of 60 variable stars. In the...
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