Hubble Hits the ‘Bullseye,’ a Galaxy With Record-Breaking 9 Rings
The Bullseye is now confirmed to have nine rings, eight of which are visible to Hubble. Researchers confirmed the existence ...
ESA spacecraft uses 'wobbly' stars to discover huge hidden worlds
The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...
SPHEREx Space Telescope to Map Cosmos in Infrared Light, Launching in February 2025
The SPHEREx space telescope, launching in February 2025, will map the cosmos in infrared light, helping scientists understand ...
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How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...
NASA’s new SPHEREx telescope set to launch in February: What makes it unique and what will it discover?
NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in ...
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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
NASA’s new telescope is more powerful than James Webb: Here’s what it could reveal about the Big Bang and the universe
NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a ...
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Astronomers Uncover a Strange Interstellar Tunnel Inside the Local Bubble
For decades, scientists have marveled at the Local Hot Bubble—a vast, low-density region stretching roughly 1,000 light-years ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Will Unveil the Hidden Spectrum of the Cosmos
SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...
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Nasa to launch a new telescope in February: What is SPHEREx and what will it see?
One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...
Gaia Completes Its Stellar Odyssey, Leaving a Cosmic Legacy
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...
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February skies of the Gulf Coast
Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the cluster shows up nicely in this fine photo of it by EAAA member James Schultz.