The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided a stunning new glimpse into the cosmos, revealing findings that challenge ...
In “Pillars of Creation,” Richard Panek shows how the James Webb Space Telescope is altering our view of the cosmos ...
When two of humanity’s most powerful eyes on the cosmos agree something strange is happening, astronomers tend to pay ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C ...
The speeds of the farthest stars and galaxies that we can observe don’t match what the Hubble constant predicts. Because light from a distant object has traveled for billions of years to reach us, our ...
Hubble's images have helped to pin down the age of the universe, which the expansion rate of pulsating stars suggests is some 13 billion to 14 billion years. Hubble has also captured images of ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 ...
Legendary Active Galaxy Contains a Monster Black Hole Amateur astronomers can observe an extraordinary celestial object known as 3C 273, the most distant target visible through a standard backyard ...
Astronomers heading the SETI search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...
"You could lose, or at least completely fry, rocky planets forming close to such a star." ...
Two different space telescopes have looked at the same galaxy, so you can see the difference in how they observe the universe ...
We showed in a 2020 paper that this could solve the Hubble tension and explain the galaxy number counts, provided our patch of the universe is about 20% less dense than average out to a billion ...