On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...
Astronomers pictured novae—the violent explosions that occur on the surface of white dwarf stars—as simple, spherical ...
Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...
Who made the present-day official outlines of the 88 constellations and why do they contain so many zigzags?Caitlin ...