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In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
The Vera Rubin Observatory launched and produced its first images on June 23, 2025. The Chilean-based observatory will be ...
Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...
The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars ...
A mobile app lets citizen scientists flag anomalies in space that are hard for computers to detect.
Perfect for families and kids — the Celestron Powerseeker 50AZ allows you to enjoy views of the night sky without breaking ...
The only images of Venus to be captured from it's surface are here. Mary Trump issues warning on long-term impact of Donald ...
The 'largest astronomical movie of all time' will provide a dataset that will transform how the cosmos is observed, revealing ...
It must be hard being a judge for ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The competition, organized by the Royal Observatory ...
At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.
Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS came from interstellar space, blowing through the ...