Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in ...

Orion Nebula: Believed to be the cosmic fire of creation by the Maya of Mesoamerica, Messier 42 blazes brightly in the constellation Orion. This stellar nursery, is only 1,500 light-years away ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) team has captured the clearest images of the universe in its earliest stages—when it ...

Three wavelengths of light have been combined together to highlight the Milky Way in purple and the cosmic microwave background ... Way that is home to the Orion Nebula, shown in the 5-degree ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy just constructed a detailed, three-dimensional map of the cosmic dust in our ... years in every direction. Red regions in the graphic show ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

Known as the cosmic microwave background, the microwaves are a relic from a time when the universe was first cooling down ...