On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

In April 2019, the world witnessed the first-ever image of a black hole, unveiling M87*, a supermassive black hole at the ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them. Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise mirrors ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An understandable development, given the several such instruments that have been ...

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