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Keep up with the latest astronomy and space-related updates here! Our experts will be covering everything from new James Webb Space Telescope discoveries to the most up-to-date viewing recommendations for special events like comets and eclipses. Whether you’re a seasoned astrophotographer or a novice amateur astronomer interested in learning more about the latest developments in the astronomy community, these articles will help you stay in the know!
- August 08, 2025
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! One of the most well-known stars in the night sky has a hidden companion, according to recent observations made by the ‘Alopeke instrument with the Gemini North Observatory.
- July 09, 2025
On July 1, 2025, astronomers at the ATLAS station in Chile made a groundbreaking discovery: the third interstellar object ever detected in our solar system, and only the second confirmed interstellar comet.
- July 03, 2025
The Newtonian telescope design uses a primary mirror and secondary mirror to focus and direct light to the eyepiece or camera sensor. The primary mirror is the larger focusing mirror at the bottom of the telescope tube.
- June 04, 2025
Astronomers have recently identified a new object, named 2017 OF201, in the outer reaches of our solar system that may need to be added to the ever growing list of “dwarf planets”.
- April 29, 2025
The search for life beyond Earth has long captivated us as a species, driving scientific exploration to uncover whether we are alone in the vast universe.
- April 03, 2025
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity revolutionized our understanding of gravity as a curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. One of the predictions that Einstein theorized was the phenomenon of gravitational lensing.
- March 26, 2025
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has continued to expand a new era of discovery by capturing direct images of extrasolar planets, including those in the HR 8799 system and the 51 Eridani system.
- February 19, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedented glimpse of the protoplanetary disk around the young star HH 30, located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 within the Taurus Molecular Cloud, located within Taurus, the Bull.
- January 22, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope, two years into its mission to explore the universe, continues to return astounding images as we head into 2025.
- January 15, 2025
On Thursday, March 13th, 2025, there will be a Total Lunar Eclipse. What will the moon look like? Will you be able to see the eclipse? Learn more!
- December 18, 2024
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has identified and "weighed" a distant galaxy, nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, that existed 600 million years after the Big Bang. Uniquely, this galaxy has a mass similar to what the Milky Way's mass might have been at...
- December 11, 2024
Recent observations by NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have provided an unprecedented glimpse into Vega's circumstellar disk, a structure stretching nearly 100 billion miles across.
- December 03, 2024
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver jaw-dropping views of the cosmos, and its latest subject is the stunning Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier 104 (M104).
- November 06, 2024
Water is the primary ingredient needed to support life, at least here on Earth. Observing the solar system through past missions, we’ve found that liquid water is surprisingly abundant.
- October 18, 2024
A recent discovery made by the James Webb Space Telescope on extrasolar planet GJ 9827 d has revealed the presence of a significant amount of water vapor in its atmosphere.
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