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The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...
The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...
The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...
L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.
More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...
The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, ...
The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...
A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...