The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of three nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths, giving them a first look at star formation, gas and dust. Data has ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has once again dazzled scientists and stargazers alike with a striking image of a galaxy once ...

A ground-based telescope in Chile has shared its highest-resolution image ever, showcasing the final stages of star evolution within our galaxy 1,350 light-years from Earth. The telescope is ...

The highest angular resolutions for telescopes can be achieved by arrays of telescopes called astronomical interferometers. Hypertelescopes are being worked on that would combine many, many telescopes ...

According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

Modern technology is amazing: where humans see an unchanging void in the depths of the universe, space telescopes are capable ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...