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Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
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Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...
Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...
That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...