NASA launches night sky challenge to celebrate Hubble anniversary
The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by ...
Candy-colored atoms shine in new image of the Veil Nebula
As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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March’s Night Sky Has a Haunting Orange 'Blood Moon,' Potential Auroras, and the First Lunar Eclipse Since 2022
March 8: The Moon Meets Mars On the night of March 8, the moon and Mars will transit through the sky together from the south ...
Team preps to study dark energy via exploding stars with NASA's Roman
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...
A Parade of Planets Is Marching Through the Night Sky
Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ...
NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...
SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...