Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff, and a photo of the Crab Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope that was featured on NASA's Picture of the Day website on Nov. 9, 2023.

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day has showcased a mystical image of the glowing tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. ... it is deemed not potentially hazardous based on current computer simulations.

The merger was identified on May 21, 2019, by two gravitational wave detectors – the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, and the European ...

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day today has a little more of a meteorological aspect to it. The picture below is kind of funky looking right? The question is, what ...

A photograph of the Milky Way taken on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea by Polish astrophotographer Marzena Rogozińska has been named NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), the second time her work ...

Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is a stunning snapshot of auroras lighting up the sky in Saariselka, in northern Finnish Lapland. It was a result of a powerful CME hitting Earth and the ...

Fancy a cosmic spaghetti? NASA's latest Picture of the Day features the deliciously named celestial wonder, the "Spaghetti Nebula.". This celestial pasta party, also known as the Supernova Remnant ...

Barbara A. Williams (current-day astronomer) Barbara A. Williams was the first African-American woman to achieve a Ph.D. in Astronomy, in 1981 (Image credit: Scott Williams via Astronomers of the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new telescope under construction in Chile, will be tasked with mapping the entire night sky in unprecedented detail, every single night.Over a 10-year survey, Vera ...

Look through back issues of Astronomy or check out the Picture of the Day images on Astronomy.com for inspiration. You could mount your camera on a tripod and take a single shot during totality.

For thousands of years, humans were looking up at the star-studded night sky using just their eyes sensitive to the optical wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum.The first telescopes ...