In December 2020 the ESA/Hubble team published a stunning view from the NASA/ESA #hubble Space Telescope of one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered. This observation has since been use...
The Víctor M. Blanco Telescope in Chile captures a doomed galaxy falling into the heart of the Fornax ClusterThe denizens of the Fornax galaxy cluster populate this image from the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m...
Could dying stars hold the secret to looking younger? New evidence from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggests that white dwarfs could continue to burn hydrogen in the final stages of their live...
A spectacular portrait of the galaxy Centaurus A has been captured by astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observat...
Open-source software will transform astronomers’ tools to analyze big #data from Vera C. Rubin ObservatoryAn expansive, multi-year collaboration will create new software to analyze the datasets from t...
About a kilometer across, space rock 2021 PH27 is the Sun’s nearest neighborUsing the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers just ten days ago discovered an asteroid w...
Kitt Peak National Observatory’s McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope will transform into an outreach facility unlike any otherWhat was once the largest solar observatory in the world is now undergoing a tra...
A team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the inn...
Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the implosion of a massive star. Using the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s #noirlab, astronomers iden...
Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a disc around a pl...
A light-colored “paver stone,” like the ones seen in this mosaic image, will be the likely target for first sampling by the Perseverance rover. This image was taken July 8, 2021, in the “Cratered Floo...
A team of astronomers has released new observations of nearby galaxies that resemble colourful cosmic fireworks. The images, obtained with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO...
Land Rover was part of the mission as Virgin Galactic completed its first ever fully crewed space flight, with founder Sir Richard Branson on board as one of four Mission Specialists.Mission accomplis...
Astronomers studying stellar pairs uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets than previously thought28 June 2021Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Ear...
HOUSTON, June 28, 2021 – Two new, advanced solar arrays provided by #boeing [NYSE: BA] have increased the International Space Station (ISS) power supply after European astronaut #thomaspesquet and #NA...
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