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A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...
A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...
Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...
The telescope may operate for 20 years, and it's off to a good start. Let's take a look at the best of Webb so far. Here, in no particular order, are 35 of the best Webb images we've seen to date. 1.
Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...
How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...
Photo / Dean Purcell NZME is celebrating more than 130 nominations at the Voyager Media Awards and the New Zealand Radio and Podcast Awards. The Herald’s reporting on the Philip Polkinghorne ...
Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...
Usually, young massive stars move around along with the gas that they were born from – but the SMC’s stars do not appear to be moving in that way, suggesting that the gas itself is not ...
The SMC remains one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. This proximity allowed the research team to identify and track approximately 7,000 massive stars within the galaxy. These stars ...
30 years on from the revelation of her betrayal in 'State of Flux,' Seska remains one of Star Trek: Voyager's most interesting ... have the crew take the long way home in the first place, the ...