The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, providing a staggering glimpse at the observing power it will unleash when it begins its decade-long survey.

A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for open science, offering the largest view deep into the universe available ...

These first images and data have been a very long time coming. The telescope that would become JWST was first dreamed up in the 1980s , and the planning and construction suffered years of budget ...

Cluster collision. When the image of SMACS 0723 was released in a White House briefing on July 11, most of the focus went to extremely distant galaxies in the background (SN: 7/11/22).But smack in ...

Researchers have developed a powerful new computer program called Morpheus that can analyze astronomical image data pixel by pixel to identify and classify all of the galaxies and stars in large ...