"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...
Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...
The rings consist of huge numbers of mostly icy ... refers to how much small fluctuations in Earth’s atmosphere blur our view of astronomical objects. “Good” seeing refers to when these ...
Amateur astronomers have lost one of the jewels of the night sky – the rings of Saturn. The majestic planet has slipped from ...