Modern technology is amazing: where humans see an unchanging void in the depths of the universe, space telescopes are capable ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of three nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths, giving them a first look at star formation, gas and dust. Data has ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

JWST snaps thousands of photos of our universe, from sparkling stellar nurseries to clusters of distant galaxies. But it takes human image processors, like Joe DePasquale, to turn these photos into ...

Among the research managers at NASA, working towards the construction of the large telescope that will allow us to observe ...

According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the ...

An international research team led by Gerd Weigelt from the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie in Bonn reports on high-resolution studies of an active galactic nucleus in the near-infrared. The ...

A ground-based telescope in Chile has shared its highest-resolution image ever, showcasing the final stages of star evolution within our galaxy 1,350 light-years from Earth. The telescope is ...

Solar flares are beautiful events.

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...