At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of ...

NEWS 18 October 2022 First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment Fabled star catalogue by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost.

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific wavelengths — fingerprints that reveal their age, motion, and chemical makeup.

Reconstructing a 3D map Zhang and Green trained a neural network to generate model spectra based on a star's properties and the properties of the intervening dust.

Evidence points to the map being made by Hipparchus, the "father of scientific astronomy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

The Star Wars trope of incomplete star maps and missing planets is scientifically accurate as it happens frequently in real life.

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

If city lights block the stars over your backyard, this map can help you hunt down the darkest skies for epic stargazing.

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