Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.
Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...
Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...
NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
In a landmark moment, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics celebrated 10 years of operation of the highly successful UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat. UIVT is the primary ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
More Than 500,000 Satellites Are Set to Orbit Earth by 2040. They May End Up Photobombing the Images Captured by Space Telescopes
Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has received a record-breaking number of proposals for its fifth observation cycle. Only 8% will be accepted. Reading time 2 minutes Since launching into space in ...
Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These measurements reveal details about the chaotic, superheated material swirling ...
Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ever seen before.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback