Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997
Only twenty-five years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp rounded the Sun and offered a dazzling spectacle in planet Earth’s night […]
Science
Astronomers Find What Might Be the Most Distant Galaxy Yet ...
Is the object a galaxy of primordial stars or a black hole knocking on the door of time? […]
Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
Unlike most entries in Charles Messier’s famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, […]
Earendel: A Star in the Early Universe
Is Earendel the farthest star yet discovered? This scientific possibility started when the Hubble Space Telescope observed a […]
The Search for a Model Octopus That Won’t Die After ...
A lab in Massachusetts may have finally found an eight-armed cephalopod that can serve as a model organism […]
Seven Sisters versus California
On the upper right, dressed in blue, is the Pleiades. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, […]
A Vortex Aurora over Iceland
No, the car was not in danger of being vacuumed into space by the big sky vortex. For […]
CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Our Earth is not at rest. The Earth moves around the Sun. The Sun orbits the center of […]
Nova Scotia Northern Lights
This almost otherworldly display of northern lights was captured in clear skies during the early hours of March […]
Hubble Space Telescope Spots Earliest and Farthest Star Known by ...
Its light twinkled some 900 million years after the Big Bang, astronomers say. Published: March 30, 2022 at […]