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A new paper posted to the arXiv preprint server by researchers who were then Visiting Astronomers at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility ... behind Ceres and Vesta. Its 513 km diameter isn't ...

This week presents an exciting array of astronomical phenomena, including the last quarter moon and several planetary alignments. In this article, we’ll explore key celestial events involving the ...

All attempts to fill this gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of ... made with an equatorial telescope and a long exposure the fixed stars ...

Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was discovered. In the early 20th century, the businessman, astronomer, and ...

At opposition, Ceres is positioned directly opposite the Sun from the Earth, allowing for optimal viewing conditions through telescopes or even powerful binoculars.

To the ancient Greeks, Spica was associated with Persephone, daughter of Ceres, the goddess of the harvest ... At the first quarter moon, these are fine public gazes with free parking, telescope ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

"This is the observatory's full field of view, a rectangular area about 20 times wider than the full moon." You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...