Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the most interesting findings about the dynamics of the Milky Way in recent ...
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.
The 1930s-set, six-part drama series about a woman trying to break free from tradition adapts one of the great Greek novels ...
Whether aliens could detect our modern civilization depends on what signs they’re looking for—and, crucially, their distance ...
Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure highlighted in the study, the Shapley supercluster, which had previously held the ...
Though insignificant in comparison to the spiral that forms the structure of the Milky Way, Dones and colleagues ... that the visualization team at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH ...
One of the best sites offered by this place is the Mirador Cristo Rey del Valle, from which visitors can enjoy the night sky ...