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The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...
Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...
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Hubble Captures Stunning View of a Spiral Galaxy NGC 2336 was discovered over a century ago, but the big, blue spiral galaxy has never looked better, thanks to an eye-catching image obtained by ...
In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...
The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC ...
Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky.
These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.
"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...
The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...