It’s been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of Nasa’s Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the completion of China’s Tiangong space station. 2023 is set to be another busy year. Here … Read More
A gleaming new Hubble Space Telescope image captures the glow of thousands upon thousands of stars in an ancient globular cluster near the Milky Way’s heart. A globular cluster is a massive collection of stars that are attracted in close … Read More
The last time this was seen, humanity had only just begun to expand. Over the coming months, a celestial object that was last observed when Neanderthals walked the planet will be visible if you look up into the sky. A … Read More
Authors It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible … Read More
All of the planets of the solar system are visible together in the night sky right now, providing stargazers with a “spectacular” show to end the year. Over the next few days, it is possible to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, … Read More
Nicolaus Copernicus, the father of modern astronomy, was a Polish astronomer. He was the first modern European scientist to propose the Heliocentric Theory of the Universe, which states that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. Prior to … Read More