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Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...
Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...
However, the Milky Way galaxy map is still larger in terms of data, as that map is over 500 TB in size.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.
Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...
A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...
Scientists will be able to turn the roughly 60 million billion bytes of image data from the Vera Rubin Observatory into breakthrough discoveries, thanks to data platforms developed in part by Carnegie ...
Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer ...
The new observatory will allow astronomers to step through space and time like never before — these videos give us a taste of ...
Martin Kahanec, the co-founder and scientific director of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), has received ...
The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...