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The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...
Utah is home to over two dozen certified Dark Sky places. The latest is in the southeastern corner of the state.
The winners of the Mangrove Photography Awards shed light on the ecologically valuable but highly threatened coastal ...
See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.
The Deltas will fly out of the southern sky. Given the relatively low altitude of the radiant from the Northland, and ...
Columnist Justice B. Hill remembers the magic of starry nights from his youth and mourns how light and air pollution have ...
The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...
Discover why Big Bend National Park is a top destination for stargazing, with clear skies and stunning Milky Way views.
At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...
An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...
Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, 1,000 light-years thick, and populated by 100 billion stars. That sounds close to infinite—until, that is, you realize that it is just a fragment of ...