February kicks off what astronomers call “galaxy season” in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year offers the best ...
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...
Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...
Astronomers everywhere will soon be peering through their telescopes for a celestial ‘planet parade’ that occurs just once every few decades.
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.