How astronomy revealed Earth's place in the universe in the past century. Learn about the discoveries of galaxies, planets, radio waves and more that changed our view of the cosmos.
Learn how radio astronomy started with Grote Reber's homemade telescope in 1937 and led to discoveries of quasars, pulsars and more. Find out how radio waves reveal the cosmos and its secrets.
A century ago, astronomers Shapley and Curtis clashed over the scope of the cosmos in a historic debate. Learn how they argued, what evidence they presented, and who won the Great Debate.
Astronomy is a branch of science that researches everything in the universe beyond our Earth's atmosphere. This includes things like other planets in our solar system, moons, stars, and even distant galaxies and black h
Gamma rays from aluminum-26, a radioactive isotope from massive stars, reveal that the Milky Way makes four to eight solar masses of new stars each year. That's two to four times the conventional ...
Aveni is a professor emeritus of astronomy and anthropology at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and a founder of the field of archaeoastronomy. “There is good evidence that [lunar ...
Astronomy A zombie star’s spiky filaments shed light on a 12th century supernova A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tendrils of gas that jut out for ...
Valleriani and colleagues used AI to examine a digitized collection of 359 astronomy textbooks published from 1472, less than 20 years after the first printing of the Gutenberg Bible, to 1650 (SN ...
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Astronomy JWST’s hunt for distant galaxies keeps turning up surprises In its first year, the James Webb Space Telescope has found many galaxies from the early universe that are bigger, brighter ...