What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated by a supernova explosion approximately 350 years ago. The material glows in ...

By Pat Beers Block Welcome Star Gazers to this month’s highlights of celestial events visible in Fluvanna County! Fun events to view in February. This month offers star gazers s ...

The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely ... The Minor Planet Center is the official authority for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and ...

He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars. He believed that the nebulae were objects within the Milky Way. Charles Messier also produced a catalog of over 100 prominent nebulae in 1781 ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...

ABSTRACT: Observational data of ball lightning often contradict each other, so it was sometimes proposed to build a theory of ball lightning based on only a small number of statistically reliable ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

But when you're looking at these objects, these are photons that have ... namely the alignments of galaxies. Observing galaxies in the very early universe is difficult because they are so faint ...

Mark Messier did it all in a career that spanned 25 NHL seasons over four decades. He’s the only player in NHL history to captain two different professional teams to championships; he won five ...

Auriga is home to numerous deep-sky wonders, including three Messier objects: M36 ... If you prefer evening observing, there’s another close pass awaiting you in the nighttime sky: Mars passes ...

Astronomers refer to the Andromeda Galaxy as M31 because it is the 31st object listed in the Messier Catalog, a list of astronomical objects compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier.