Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...
After more than 20 years of planning and construction, astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory today — and also registered hundreds of the first ...
A recent photograph taken from the Gemini South Observatory in Chile provides a breathtaking view of the Milky Way, offering ...
Update June 23, 2025, 11:40 A.M. CDT: Additional images and videos showing our dynamic universe have now been released! What do photos from the largest digital camera ever built look like? Now we know ...
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Astrophysics is, as many astrophysicists will tell you, the story of everything. The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to ...