NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...
The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...
Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...
Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...
Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of electromagnetic radiation, billions of times more energetic than visible light.
The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...
M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...
That’s an observation, made around a decade ago, that the universe seems to be expanding faster than it should be according ...
Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...
Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...
An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...