Phantom Galaxy Seen Through James Webb and Hubble Telescope
The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...
Barnard’s Star Finally Has a Planet, and Possibly More
For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...
A Winona professor dreams of new ways to observe the stars
Adam Beardsley of Winona State University recently received a $500,000 grant to design an observatory to studio radio waves ...
A Giant Leap for Astronomy: Telescope for NASA’s Roman Mission Complete
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...
First-Ever ‘Einstein Zig-Zag’ Found in Space Could Help Solve the Universe’s Expansion Mystery
A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
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The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
Survey captures image sequence of galactic neighbors in the local universe
The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...
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First Known Double Gravitational Lens Is A Cosmic Telescope Into The Distant Universe
Not only that, but the second lens also magnifies the first – though not very bright, it can be seen in the images collected ...
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Aurora activity is just getting started. Here's why the best northern lights are yet to come.
It's good news for aurora chasers as peak auroral activity occurs a few years after solar maximum, according to Brekke. This ...
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Missoula production illuminates female astronomer's story
The UM School of Theatre and Dance is producing "Silent Sky," based on an astronomer whose analyses at the Harvard ...
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'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for ...