Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...
At the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this one held in Phoenix on January 4-8, Andrea Dupree of the Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian presented a talk entitled, ...
After four centuries of advances, astronomers now capture the Sun’s swirling, dynamic features in stunning detail.
Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.
Jupiter achieves opposition on January 10, providing optimal viewing of its extensive atmospheric details and dynamic Galilean moon transits, including a rare overlapping shadow transit of Callisto.
Lunar Prospector launched on January 6, 1998, as the third mission within NASA’s Discovery Program, which emphasizes frequent ...
Because rogue planets don’t orbit a host star, they can’t be found using astronomers’ typical go-to methods: radial velocity or transits. (Radial velocity measures the way a star wobbles as an unseen ...
A new extreme trans-Neptunian object (ETNO), designated 2023 KQ14 (Ammonite), has been discovered, representing only the fourth known sednoid – a class of ETNOs with highly distant and elongated ...
The observation period features lunar appulses with Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, complemented by transits of Jupiter's Galilean moons (Io and Europa) and their shadows across the gas giant's disk.
The COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG-3) satellite, a critical synthetic aperture radar asset for Italian Earth observation, is slated for launch on December 31, 2025, aboard a Falcon 9 from ...
January presents optimal viewing conditions for Jupiter, which reaches opposition on the 10th in Gemini at magnitude -2.7, offering its largest apparent diameter (47") and opportunities to observe ...