This video will make you think twice before you look at the sun. Astronomer Mark Thompson took a pig's eyeball and held it up to the lens of an 18 millimeter telescope pointed directly at the sun. The ...
An astronomer has snapped comet 3I/ATLAS using the Lowell Observatory's powerful Discovery Telescope, as well as his own ...
Through the global Unistellar network, more than 25,000 citizen astronomers are joining SETI Institute researchers to collect ...
The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The development of advanced telescope technology has significantly expanded our cosmic ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Science Central is offering an out-of-this-world exhibit for a limited time. The Hubble and Webb Telescope exhibit introduces people to the iconic Hubble photos and gives ...
The University of New Hampshire Observatory at night. The telescope is located inside the dome. Twice a month, on clear nights, the University of New Hampshire Observatory in Durham opens up to the ...
An instrument on Webb called the Near-Infrared Spectrograph collects light from distant objects and then separates them into different wavelengths, or colors, like a prism. These colors, representing ...
Two more of NASA's space telescopes recently got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, a captivating interstellar interloper that first captured the world's attention in July. The object – just the third ...
Globular clusters are gravitationally bound, dense star collections containing tens of thousands to millions of stars, often located in galactic halos. Omega Centauri, the largest known globular ...
A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this Halloween.
We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...