Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
Illinois stargazers have the chance to see a "planet parade" this January, with four bright planets to be visible in a single line of sight. There also are three chances to see a supermoon later this ...
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...
The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...