Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...

An overview of the unique characteristics of the four prominent telescopes Hubble, James Webb, Euclid and Vera C. Rubin, which observe the universe from different perspectives. The article also ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars ...

The first images from the observatory will be published on 23 June 2025 at 17:00 CEST. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a ...

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or less grasp our place in the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, equipped with the largest digital camera, is poised to conduct an unprecedented ...