Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...
The galaxy, cataloged as COSMOS2020-635829, was spotted in data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and has a redshift of z = 1.156, meaning astronomers are seeing it as it existed about 8.5 ...
A jellyfish galaxy is found in dense galaxy clusters and appears to be “dripping” gas, forming long, tentacle-like tails of newborn stars trailing behind it. The visual resemblance to a jellyfish ...
Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...
FILE - The Milky Way is seen over the Haleakala Observatory and the lights of Kahului, right, on Nov. 23, 2024, at the summit ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
From nocturnal wildlife safaris to stargazing train rides, a dark sky expert shares her favorite astrotourism adventures ...
From Big Sur overlooks to Eastern Sierra valleys, these free California campsites deliver unforgettable scenery without ...
An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, ...
In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...
A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...