Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...
The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...
See amazing views of the M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 galaxies captured using the James Webb Space ...
The New York Times needle hasn’t started twitching ... connection can freely peruse the snapshots that they’ve taken. I keep ...
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Scientists believe that about 14 billion years ago, during the Big Bang, an unidentified energy made the universe expand ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.
The November monthly meeting of the San Juan Stargazers will be on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the regular time of 6 p.m. for the social hour and 7 p.m. program time.   We will meet at our regular ...
This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a billion years.