Globular clusters were among the first structures to form in the early universe. Some of these ancient stellar cities are still with us today, circulating in...
Author - Tejas Sharma
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back at Pluto after its closest approach on July 14, 2015, and snapped this photo of the planet’s hazy...
Most of the time we at Sky & Telescope ponder what’s up there, in the sky. But sometimes we need to focus on what’s down here, on Earth. Events can force...
Artist’s illustration of a magnetar, a neutron star with powerful magnetic fields. ESA Pulsars have historically been classified into different categories —...
Comet NEOWISE: Still there at dusk. . . . Comet NEOWISE continues to hang dimly in the northwest at the end of twilight, though it’s fading. Plan to look...
Maryland began the 18th century as a plantation colony and slave society. Deprived of liberty and deadened by monotony, exhaustion, and the constant threat of...
The launch of a Long March 5 rocket carrying Tianwen 1 CNSA A Long March 5 rocket roared to life early this morning at 12:41 a.m. EDT / 4:41 UT, launching from...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured an image of a young, Sun-like star and its two companions. Direct images of...
In exactly 500 days there will be a real collector’s solar eclipse. On Saturday, 4 December, 2021, at 7:33 a.m. UT — just after a brief night passes — part of...
Every dot in this “pie” diagram is a galaxy, color coded by type: green for nearby galaxies, magenta and red for old red galaxies, blue for young...
