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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of stellar nursery 30 Doradus, nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-infrared Instrument (MIRI) ...

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside. That would be a mistake.

The only drawback here is that the telescopes can suffer from chromatic aberration, where colors and images can seem a bit fuzzy. Here, we've rounded up some of our favorite refractors: the Orion ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

Human space travel won't always be the preserve of the elite but until then there are other ways to experience the dramatic ...

We've rounded up the best telescopes for kids. Is there a budding stargazer in your family? Maybe you're trying to cultivate a child's interest in our solar system? If you're looking for one of ...

Some of the dimmer planets are also visible now, but you will need a telescope and a star chart to find them. Do you want to go deeper into the cosmos? Try for this easy to find gem in the ...

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious ...

According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...

These plasma jets glow at radio frequencies, so they can be seen with a radio telescope and are, aptly, named radio galaxies. In a recent episode of the astronomy podcast The Cosmic Savannah ...