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Astronomy - Science News
Astronomy See a 3-D map of stellar nurseries based on data from the Gaia telescope The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the ...
Astronomy - National Air and Space Museum
Astronomy is a branch of science that researches everything in the universe beyond our Earth's atmosphere. This includes things like other planets in our solar system, moons, stars, and even distant galaxies and black holes.
The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than astronomers had thought
The Milky Way spawns stars in places such as the Rosette Nebula, seen here in a far-infrared image from the Herschel Space Telescope, and does so with much more vigor than astronomers had thought ...
Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century
A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.
Citizen scientists make cosmic discoveries with a global telescope network
On balconies and in backyards, Wi-Fi–enabled telescopes are connecting astronomy enthusiasts across six continents.
Astronomy Program - National Air and Space Museum
Join the Museum and local astronomy groups for an evening of stargazing at the Eisenhower Memorial.
Discovering Our Universe - National Air and Space Museum
Modern astronomy began with the invention of the telescope just over 400 years ago. With this new tool, Galileo showed that there is more in the universe than discernible with our eyes alone. Today, astronomers use instruments that can capture light beyond the visible, enabling them to observe even more—from black holes colliding to the beginning of the universe.
Who is the Man Who Discovered the Universe? - National Air and Space Museum
The discovery led to the realization that the universe is expanding, and that it must have had a beginning: the Big Bang. “Hubble is known as a titan in astronomy, especially American astronomy,” says Samantha Thompson, the Phoebe Waterman Haas Astronomy Curator at the National Air and Space Museum.
Space - Science News
The Space topic features the latest news in astronomy, cosmology, planetary science, exoplanets, astrobiology and more.
The Vera Rubin Observatory is ready to revolutionize astronomy
Sporting the world’s largest digital camera, the new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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