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What to Expect Tonight If you lift your eyes to the western sky after sunset on January 22, you’ll see a delicate slender crescent moon…

Introduction: A Familiar Nebula Reimagined The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered a new, incredibly detailed portrait of one of the night sky’s most…

New JWST Images Spotlight a Familiar Nebula in Unfamiliar Detail The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to redefine what we can glimpse in the…

Groundbreaking Observation from the South Pole Telescope In a surprising turn for galactic astronomy, researchers with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) project team have detected…

Overview of the 2030 Total Solar Eclipse On Monday, November 25, 2030, the Moon will align precisely with the Sun, producing a total solar eclipse…

Overview: A New Window into the Galactic Center In a surprising breakthrough, researchers with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) project have observed energetic bursts of…

Understanding the Super-Earth Puzzle Scientists are converging on a surprising clue about the most common planets in our galaxy: super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. A recent study…

Overview On Monday, November 25, 2030, one of nature’s most striking phenomena—the total solar eclipse—will sweep across the Southern Hemisphere. While the path of totality…

Overview In the search for technosignatures, astronomers increasingly turn to Dysonian methods—looking for evidence of galaxy-scale engineering that radiates heat at mid-infrared (MIR) wavelengths. Using…

H2: A Window into Stellar Beginnings The Hubble Space Telescope continues to offer breathtaking views of the cosmos, and its January 16, 2025 photo of…
