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For the photographers honored at the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, the universe is their muse. From our ...
The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...
From the ancient Assyrians and Greeks, to the greatest minds of the Renaissance, and up to the billionaire space explorers of the 21st century, incredible amounts of time and effort have gone into ...
From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...
Behold! The 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards shortlist has been released, showcasing a spectacular array of ...
Answers to those questions could come from a telescope with the world’s largest digital camera, a project with initial ...
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What is Planck’s constant?
At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...
The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...
A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...
Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...
(This article was originally published in the May 2022 issue of Astronomy). St. Augustine said of time, “If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain to him who asks, I don’t ...