Giant Satellite Outshines Most Stars in the Sky
On some nights, one of the brightest objects in the sky is neither a planet nor a star. It is…
Song of the Stars, Part 3: The Universe in all Senses
Timmy Broderick: So I’m sitting inside this stone clock tower in the small town of Castellaro Lagusello in Italy. It’s…
Song of the Stars, Part 1: Transforming Space into Symphonies
Jason Drakeford: It’s 2016, and we’re in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. A live orchestra and choir perform opera music while thousands…
The Science of Shooting Stars
Who doesn’t love seeing a meteor? The experience of that sudden flash and streak of light turning your head and…
Webb Space Telescope takes stunningly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the activity of a pair of forming young stars in high-resolution near-infrared light.…
Webb Space Telescope captures mysterious ‘question mark’ in shot of forming stars
While questions about the universe abound, a James Webb Space Telescope image has recently raised others. The telescope’s high-resolution Near-Infrared…
JWST Might Have Spotted the First Dark Matter Stars
In a first, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have glimpsed a rare type of star that astronomers aren’t…