This cool space wallpaper shows six hundred newly forming stars are crowded into intricate filaments of gas and dust that makes up this stellar nursery, seen for the first time by ESA’s Herschel ...

We know this simple fact because of the existence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a bath of weak but persistent radiation that soaks the entire universe.

Whenever we see rocket launches, moon landing pictures, or even videos from the International Space Station, there never seems to be any stars visible in the background, it just looks dark. So to ...

Dark cloud obscures hundreds of background stars." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 01 / 150107081659.htm (accessed June 2, 2025). Explore More ...

Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new ESO image. But the black gap in this glitteringly beautiful starfield is not really a gap, but rather a region of space clogged with ...

NASA announced on Dec. 19, 2023, that it has found a cluster of young stars called NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” which uncannily resembles the shape of a Christmas tree ...

The space agencies working on the telescope explain that, in the background of the shot, lie extremely distant galaxies. "Blue objects with diffraction spikes are stars, and the closer they are ...

Many of these objects are reflecting so much of the Sun’s light at the camera that the shutter closes too quickly to capture the additional light that originates from stars in the background.

New research shows how observers can determine satellite shapes by watching them occult background stars. There are thousands of satellites in LEO, a region defined as below an altitude of 2,000 ...

In 1907, Albert Einstein had his “happiest thought” — people in free fall do not feel their own weight. This simple idea laid the foundation for his general theory of relativity, which ...