In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...
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What Is a Lunar Occultation?
In a lunar occultation, the Moon completely covers a star or planet as it moves across the sky. The object seem ...
When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...
Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...
Coming up this thursday night the total lunar eclipse, otherwise known as a blood moon will be visible for just about everyone across north america.Meteorologis ...