A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

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A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

The earliest of the large telescopes, such as the twin 10-meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii, gathered the glory. The two Kecks achieved first light in 1993 and 1996. By 2000, astronomers using Keck ...

A pair of Sydney PhD students helped sharpen the view of humanity’s most powerful space observatory – without leaving Earth. As an indelible reminder of this thrilling result, Louis Desdoigts, now a ...

University of Washington researchers are focused on a celestial light show with the groundbreaking Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The observatory, featuring the largest camera ever built, now ...

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Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, among the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the nickname ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little... James Webb Space Telescope's 'little red dots' come ...