The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

when the bright 'train' of objects entered into view," Netherlands ... version of each Starlink satellite weighs 573 lbs. (260 kilograms) and is, according to Sky & Telescope magazine, roughly ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

The resulting colossal image was stitched together from 600 different fields of view, is made of at least ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told National Geographic ...

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) has partnered with Japanese media company Asahi Shimbun to provide a 24/7 livestream of Maunakea’s summit via the new ...

One concerned magnification. In striving to make images he saw through his telescope ever larger, Galileo found that his field of view became ever smaller. He reached a point of diminishing ...

Even some telescopes in space aren't safe ... Many astronomers view the budding business of internet-satellite constellations as an existential threat. But of all the companies racing to claim ...