Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others are ...
Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing a star suddenly burst into a blaze of light brighter than anything nearby. A flash ...
Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...
A new study explains how some supernovas are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...