by admin | May 20, 2025 | News
On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his …Powered by...
by admin | May 19, 2025 | News
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS …Powered by...
by admin | May 19, 2025 | News
For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving star catalogs — the Star Manual of Master Shi — might be more ancient than we …Powered by...
by admin | May 19, 2025 | News
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the early morning hours of May 22 and observe a close pairing of Venus and the Moon. About once a month these two …Powered by...
by admin | May 19, 2025 | News
The data revealed that gas from HW2’s accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an astonishing rate — equivalent to about two Jupiter masses per year, one of the …Powered by...