Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...

Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...

The "Landolt NASA Space Mission" will launch a tiny satellite mimicking a star into space named after an astronomer from the ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

This course provides an introduction to modern observational methods used in astronomy. Ground and space-based telescopes and detectors ... you will have an understanding of techniques used in ...

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter of the full Moon in the night sky.

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The accurate modelling of the point spread function (PSF) is of paramount importance in astronomical observations, as it allows for the correction of distortions and blurring caused by the telescope ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface. By Kenneth Chang Scientists proposed an ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...