A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…
This sword has a much longer history than the Field Museum originally thought. Field Museum If you visit the Field Museum in Chicago for its First Kings of Europe exhibit…
The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out of 10 Americans, and nearly a third of all humans,…
Human for scale. Toadzilla was truly a massive specimen. Queensland government Cane toads are unwelcome in Queensland, Australia. The species reproduces like mad and takes a toll on native animals.…
A crescent moon just before the moon enters its new phase. NASA This weekend the moon will be absent from the night sky, as it rises and sets with the…
One of the dishes of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune in Maharashtra, India. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Scientists have managed to do something we’d previously thought impossible…
This is NASA’s preliminary design of the Luvoir Telescope. The agency’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory could possibly look like a scaled-down version of this. NASA Just over a year ago,…
Astronomers have captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest surveys of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. In a Wednesday release, the Harvard…
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki Now is the time to start looking for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in clear, dark, moonless night skies as it…
An odd Martian landscape may be an icy place. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Mars landscapes have a different kind…
