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 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140.
I keep the photo archive for the James Webb Space Telescope, the farthest-seeing of them all, in my bookmarks bar. When I ...
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 ...
When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a ...
The Biden administration’s legacy in space is one of global reach and using space as a soft power tool, as evidenced by its ...