Few things are as awe-inspiring as the vastness of space. To tell you the truth, its enormity sometimes makes my brain hurt. For instance, consider that traveling to Pluto by car would take 6,000 ...

Transparent telescope brings 'stunning deep-sky details' closer to home While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French smart ...

Hubble's sharp resolution allows observers to pore over the galaxy's details, showing that it has traits of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Its core appears unusually smooth and gas-poor, traits ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...

The algorithm models the blurring incurred by Earth's atmosphere and counteracts it, producing sharp and clear images. A new algorithm capable of transforming ground-based telescope images by removing ...

The most powerful telescope in history. The James Webb Space Telescope's "jewel-filled" photos are stunning. Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals ‘Not My Signature’: ...

Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope. Both are multi-billion-dollar international ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jean Mueller became Palomar Observatory’s first female telescope operator in 1985, breaking decades-old gender ...

Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s NIRCam instrument. The darkest areas of the image are not empty space but are areas ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...