On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

A first look at Canon-powered Vaonis Hyperia – a smart telescope that brings professional observatory-level astrophotography ...

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Gazing at the night sky and pointing out constellations is all well and good, but the arrival of smart digital telescopes has given stargazers the power to capture and share celestial majesty with ...

Scientists have spent six years building a sophisticated simulation system that creates "pixel-perfect" data that mimics what ...

Astronomers have combined two powerful astronomical assets, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, to identify 19 new “gravitationally lensed” galaxies. Among these 19, ...

As reported by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, 1,800 new supernovae, including the 58 Type Ia supernovae located eight billion light years away, have been captured ...