This month we’ll look for tiny bits of Halley’s Comet; track down four planets; take stock of bright stars in the late-spring sky; and use the constellation Leo to learn what astronomers call all the stars that don’t have names. So grab your curiosity, and come along on this month...
Telescope, device used to form magnified images of distant objects. The telescope is undoubtedly the most important investigative tool in astronomy. It provides a means of collecting and analyzing radiation from celestial objects, even those in the far r
Deep, Detailed Images of Distant Planets Taken by Area TelescopeAstronomers on an "exoplanet hunt" have taken the deepest imagesever of four planets around a...Beal, Tom
"Webb's new images of two iconic systems, HR 8799 and 51 Eridani , and their planets have stunned researchers, and provided additional information into the chemical make-up of the young gas giants," NASA said in a statement .They used Webb's coronagraph instruments, which block the light f...
We explore some of the best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time including nebulas, galaxies, planets and more!
The Hubble Space Telescope provides flyby-class images of planets in Earth's solar system. This shot of Jupiter shows its Great Red Spot (GRS), a storm big enough to swallow multiple Earths.Located nearly 500 million miles away, Jupiter's atmosphere is a cauldron of activity including hundred...
DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY IMAGES Click anywhere in the sky, sit back, and watch a digital image appear on your screen for the area of the sky or celestial object you selected. Store the image into STAR Atlas:PRO™ where it can be charted like other celestial objects and re-display the image...
NASA on Tuesday released five images from the early work of the James Webb Space Telescope. The pictures highlighted the great potential of the telescope to plumb the secrets of deep space. Below are some of the things we have learned so far.美国宇航局周二发布了詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜早期拍摄的...
"This is the most comprehensive census to date of the icy ingredients available to make future generations of stars and planets, before they are heated during the formation of young stars," NASA said. If you missed any of these images this year and don't want to miss another, you can vi...
ones that Euclid has now released. The first of these images shows the Horsehead Nebula, which lies 1375 light years from Earth in the Orion constellation. This nebula is well known, but the incredible detail in this new image may allow scientists to spot new stars and even youn...