The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

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 ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

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 ...

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The observatory is capable of pinpointing the ... including the famous Hubble and James Webb telescopes. Those telescopes have for years zoomed in on the far corners of the known universe ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...