Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...
The XXVIIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ends today in Beijing, China. One of the largest astronomy meetings ever held, it saw a pot pourri of frontline astronomy ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A simulation of a set of synthetic galaxies. Photons are sampled from these galaxies and have been simulated through the Earth's ...