Historical astronomical records from China and Japan recorded a supernova explosion in the year 1181. It was in the constellation…
Stars more massive than the Sun blow themselves to pieces at the end of their life. Usually leaving behind either…
XRISM, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, is a joint NASA/JAXA mission led by JAXA. The X-ray space telescope began…
Astronomy is all about light. Sensing the tiniest amounts of it, filtering it, splitting it into its component wavelengths, and…
The JWST is taking a break from studying the distant Universe and has trained its infrared eye on the heart…
In 2013, amateur astronomer Dana Patchick was looking through images from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer archive and discovered a…
Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering…
The first written record of a supernova comes from Chinese astrologers in the year 185. Those records say a 'guest…
The Hubble Space Telescope, to which we owe our current estimates for the age of the universe and the first…
The vacuum of space isn't really a vacuum. A vacuum is defined by Merriam-Webster as "a space absolutely devoid of…