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 ...
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.
Proximate to the Moon, Regulus (Alpha Leonis), exhibiting an apparent magnitude of 1.3, will be visible. The angular separation between the Moon and Regulus is expected to change on an hourly basis.
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 ...
Robert Aitken, born in 1864, overcame childhood health challenges, including progressive deafness, to earn a B.A. in mathematics in 1887 and subsequently teach mathematics and astronomy. He embarked ...
On January 2nd, the Full Moon, designated the Wolf Moon, officially occurs at 5:30 A.M. EST, simultaneously identified as a Super Moon near perigee and marking the culmination of a four-Super Moon ...
NGC 7662, a planetary nebula colloquially known as the Blue Snowball, is located within the northern region of the constellation Andromeda, approximately 4.5° east of the star Omicron Andromedae.
The article details a significant astronomical event: the transit of Jupiter's moon Io and its shadow across the gas giant's disk, observed overnight from December 27th into December 28th. The ingress ...
Asteroid 40 Harmonia will reach opposition at 10 A.M. EST on January 1st, becoming observable with binoculars or a telescope in Gemini, positioned approximately 2.5° southeast of Mebsuta. Observation ...
The article details the observation of NGC 2264, designated as the Christmas Tree Cluster, on December 24. This celestial object is identified as a magnitude 3.9 combination open cluster and ...