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Maunakea’s Subaru Telescope reveals unexpected surface of distant comet

A chance discovery in archival images from the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea has revealed that the surface of a distant comet behaves unlike the dark asteroids it resembles. The fin...

Naked Comet Photobombs Public Telescope Image

An accidental Subaru Telescope image of a distant bare comet is giving astronomers a clearer look at the surface of a cometary nucleus. A comet can reveal its surface most clearly...

Some Comets are Naked, and One Just Got Caught Photo-Bombing

Japanese researchers got lucky when a comet they wanted to study was found photo-bombing archival images from Japan's Subaru Telescope. The Subaru, with its 8.2 meter mirror, happe...

Even the Rubin's Test Camera Produces Stunning Images

The Vera Rubin Observatory's Commissioning Camera operated for about 7 weeks in 2024, before the observatory released its well-known first look images. It's an engineering camera,...

The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey Releases the Largest 2-D Map of the Universe

The newest DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map covers three-quarters of the sky and catalogs nearly four billion objects. This publicly-available database contains stars, galaxies, sup...

Rubin Observatory Peers Deep Into the Famous COSMOS Field

A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field.

The DESI legacy imaging survey releases the largest 2D map of the universe

In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the cosmos. Since then...

Webb Captures This Golden Galaxy Cluster in All it's Glory

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features the brilliant golden galaxies belonging to the MACS J0454.1-0300 galaxy cluster.

Rubin observatory peers deep into the famous COSMOS field

The COSMOS field, or Cosmic Evolution Survey Deep Field, is one of the most famous patches of the universe observed by astronomers. Located in the constellation Sextans, this regio...

NASA’s Roman Telescope Opens Its 300-Megapixel Eye on the Universe

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has powered up its 300-megapixel cosmic camera, bringing its first sweeping views of the universe closer than ever. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Tele...

NASA's Hubble Marks its 200,000th Orbit by Watching Lensed Supernova

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19th and marked this milestone with observations that could help refine astronomers' measurements...

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."

Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope discovers more than 2,100 previously unknown galaxies

The discovery is the result of a decades-long survey that is now providing new insights into how galaxies form and evolve.

Photo: NASA's Hubble spies superbubble scene

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galax...

NASA's Hubble seeks lensed supernova, marks 200,000 orbits

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, marking another milestone for an observatory that continues to transform our understanding of...

Extremely massive galaxy proto-supercluster smashes distance record

An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant progenitor to a galaxy supercluster ever. The discovery supports existing theories of how galaxy clusters evolv...

Striking new images of unique supernova remnant reveal pearl-like chains

The only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way has an unexpectedly intricate structure: chains of gas knots resembling pearls on a string, each wide enough to fit th...

This Firework-Like Supernova Remnant Is the Result of an Explosion People Saw 845 Years Ago

Scientists using the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i captured a new photo of Pa 30, a supernova remnant believed to be the remains of a supernova that people witnessed in August...

New US space telescope hunts for exoplanets with crucial Japanese parts

Skywatch: Team identifies new Wolf-Rayet stars near Milky Way’s black hole

Astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Gemini North Telescope on Mauna Kea have published a study about Wolf-Rayet stars orbiting the central supermassive black hole at th...

The 20th Data Release (DR 20) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is Here!

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has officially launched its twentieth data release (DR20), featuring updated data from multiple observations projects.

Webb Photographs One of the Most Beautiful Gravitational Lenses

The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Picture of the Month is among the best and most powerful examples of gravitational lensing ever seen. [Read More]

Hawai'i high school students name image of glittering galaxy pair

Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola is the Hawaiian name given to NGC 7253—a pair of spiral galaxies caught in each other's gravity. Captured by the Gemini North telescope on Ma...

Webb reveals dynamic panorama of star formation, including smallest known brown dwarfs

This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb, astronomers searched IC...