18-year-old boy discovers 3 unusual galaxies
An 18-year-old student from New York, Julian Shapiro, discovered three unusual dwarf galaxies while still in high school.…
NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission
A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the…
Brisbane stargazers capture stunning celestial images despite inner-city light pollution
Densely populated and polluted with light, major cities like Brisbane may not be the most obvious places to…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Unusual Objects in Pinwheel Galaxy
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers found mysterious objects that give off unusually low-energy X-rays but intense levels…
Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It.
The driving force behind our universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. While this…
Powerhouse Parramatta home to new observatory with telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies
More than two centuries after a famed observatory was built in Parramatta, a new one has been constructed…
From galaxies to knees | Particle
Connor Bottrell didn’t look through a telescope until he was an adult, which makes his current job all…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…
Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A – NASA
In this July 6, 2026, image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy…
Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral – NASA Science
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy struggling against titanic forces that…
Little red dot galaxies may solve a cosmic neutrino mystery
Faint, distant galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope are beginning to reshape how scientists understand the…
The Milky Way’s Arms May Stretch Farther Than We Thought
By observing light from the most powerful explosions in the universe bouncing off dust clouds in the Milky…