Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

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You’ll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best ...

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MacPhail’s interest in the night sky began when he heard President John F. Kennedy’s speech in 1962 that the United States would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. MacPhail’s parents ...

After Dark: Pour the bubbly and brace for technical hiccups in Norman J. Warren's ambitious disasterpiece from 1987 about a ghostly hotel trapped in a time warp.

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Using data from the APOGEE survey, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the University of Vienna and Paris Observatory have reconstructed the properties of ‘hidden’ stars ...

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