The “shoot first, edit later” philosophy behind 360-degree cameras should, in theory, make them ideal for imaging the night ...

Under the leadership of George Ellery Hale, the mirror for Mount Wilson's 100-inch scope was ordered in 1906. Businessman John Hooker initially covered the expenses; when he later withdrew his support ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a new light.

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging supermassive black holes. The structure reveals unimaginable energy levels and ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Join observers from around the world on Saturday, Oct. 4, for NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night. This ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jean Mueller became Palomar Observatory’s first female telescope operator in 1985, breaking decades-old gender ...