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Photo shows collapsed Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, not China's 'Eye of Heaven' telescope
AFP via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoA photo of a collapsed radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory has been shared hundreds...
The New Extremely Large Telescopes And The US’ Waning Influence In Astronomy
Hackaday· 10 hours agoFor many decades, the USA has been at the forefront of astronomy, whether with ground-based telescopes or space-based observatories like Hubble and the JWST. This rightfully ...
James Webb telescope measures the starlight around the universe's biggest, oldest black holes for...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have separated the light of a quasar from the light...
James Webb Space Telescope suggests supermassive black holes grew from heavy cosmic 'seeds'
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe mystery of how early universe supermassive black holes grew so quickly may be solved, with the...
A failed star and an ammonia trail could reveal how some giant exoplanets form
SPACE.com· 6 days agoAstronomers now have a way to figure out how gas-giant planets form, thanks to a discovery by the...
Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University)) These...
Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth
New York Times· 5 hours agoA growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis....
See this galaxy's bright center? It's home to a voracious supermassive black hole
SPACE.com· 7 days agoNASA's Black Hole Week is our favorite celebration of really cool (and sometimes terrifying) things....
Possible atmosphere on rocky exoplanet found for 1st time
EarthSky· 1 hour agoAn international team of astronomers studied rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e for evidence of an...
Our neighboring galaxy's supermassive black hole would probably be a polite dinner guest
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt would appear that these giant streams quietly, but continuously, feed the cosmic abyss — and it's...