The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...
The observatory at the institute building is located in the dome of the Viktor-Franz-Hess-Building, which was already built in February 1986. In 1992 we started the planning work and the telescope ...
The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...
The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.
Recent research using data from the Keck Observatory and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, known as the Altjira system. This discovery ...
Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, ...
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X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...
A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust ...