Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...
Study using radio telescope data finds most geostationary satellites emit little unintended radio interference in frequencies used for astronomy ...
A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...
Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...
Ground-based optical astronomy primarily relies on nighttime observations due to the Sun's overwhelming brightness obscuring fainter celestial objects. Specialized solar telescopes and space-based ...
KEARNEY — A comet streaking across the night sky. The northern lights illuminating a Nebraska landscape. A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy. At the ...
One hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble made the first discovery of galaxies outside of our own. In 1923, Hubble found a way to view individual stars within the Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.537 million ...
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Recent research challenges the prevailing theory that hot Jupiters (gas giants orbiting close to their stars) form through a disruptive process that prevents the existence of smaller planets in the ...