Challenge your understanding of cosmic origins by exploring the possibility that the Big Bang wasn't the universe's true ...

Simon Smith, a PhD student at UVic and Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s next guest speaker, specializes in finding extremely tiny, ...

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks early this week beginning Sunday evening and continues for three nights. The best viewing is ...

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On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space for $10 billion. A month later, it reached its goal in solar orbit at a ...

At the beginning and end of this cycle ... the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured Neptune's ghostly rings and revealed a band of clouds around a known vortex ...

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"The first light of the Large Aperture Telescope is a most important achievement for Simons Observatory. It marks the beginning of the operations by the complete facility, complementing the ...

Now, though, researchers are close to finally starting up a powerful astronomical ... Brown says he couldn't have asked for a better telescope to hunt his celestial quarry. "If you were to hand ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Ideally, telescopes have wide fields-of-view (so ... “There’s only a finite amount of sky,” says Amara. “And we’re starting to fill it all in.” ...