“The spiral seems to be related to the SpaceX ... This provides plenty of opportunity for reports of unnatural lights in the night sky as the company’s Falcon 9 boosters rocket to space ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has captured one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky in incredible detail in a new image. Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

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The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... way out on one of those vast spiral arms of stars and dust ...