This course provides an introduction to modern observational methods used in astronomy. Ground and space-based telescopes and detectors, imaging techniques and imaging, as well as spectroscopy, will ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see ...

When exploring outer space, the sharpness of our vision has always been limited by Earth’s atmosphere and the physical size of our telescopes. But astronomers shattered these limitations in 2024 by ...

Step aside, Darth Vader. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Joint Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) ...

An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image ever of a cosmic filament, a vast structure of gas ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

An extraordinary event consistent with a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 x 1015 electron volts or 220 ...

The most powerful neutrino on record, with help from a deep-sea sensor, has provided the first evidence for high-energy ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

Amateur astronomy is filled with solutions to problems ... gathering a large amount of observational detail for scientific purposes, or simply as an educational tool to allow more viewing of ...

An American Astronomy team at Brown University found themselves in a mystery when an Australian telescope recorded some ...