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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Anyone can name a star online, but the International Astronomical Union is offering a rare space…

By ESA/Hubble August 15, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image showcasing the globular cluster NGC 6540 in the constellation Sagittarius. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. CohenThis scintillating image, which was captured by the <span…

Tumble into the Cartwheel Galaxy. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) The Cartwheel Galaxy is the latest distant galaxy to get the Webb telescope treatment. The Webb telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built,…

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Previewing our Artemis I mission to the Moon …A new image from our <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an…

Launch of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket, with the KPLO Moon mission. SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the skies over Cape Canaveral in Florida yesterday evening, taking with it South Korea’s first Moon…

Antares shines brightly above the Rho Ophiuchi complex.Ezequiel Etcheverry / S&T Online Photo Gallery Not long ago, I was working with a client on a blog post about summer insomnia — specifically…

A sample dwarf galaxy (small box left) observed with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on AstroSat. AstroSat detected extremely blue star-forming clumps on the galaxy's outer boundary (box on left) (IUCAA)Dwarf galaxies, made up of a…

In his painting Two Men Contemplating the Moon, 19th century German artist Caspar David Friedrich depicts the earthlit portion of the waxing crescent with a brighter edge (top). The cause is likely a…

“If that galaxy shown to be 300 million years old is true then big galaxies had already formed,” he said. “Stars had to form way before that. So I'm guessing between 50 to 100 million years after the big bang. That would be my guess.…