A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.
The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...
Ala Ebtekar’s new cyanotypes for Arion Press were exposed using moon and starlight during a partial lunar eclipse ...
New data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has allowed astronomers to travel back in time to the dawn of the universe.
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The new findings come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which sits on a telescope at the Kitt Peak ...
The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...
IrishCentral Contributor Michael O'Shea traces the fascinating history of 'The Plough and the Stars' and how it became a ...
New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...
Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...
Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...
The research, by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, shows both the intensity and polarization of the ...