Most distant celestial objects, such as galaxies and nebulae, generally do not exhibit perceived color through telescopes due to their low surface brightness, which is insufficient to activate the ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...

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The most distant celestial object ever observed, nicknamed Earendel, might just be a cosmic optical illusion. Discovered in 2022 by the Hubble Space Telescope, Earendel was initially identified as an ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described Ammonite, a potential dwarf planet beyond Pluto. Yesterday, astronomers announced ...

Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs traveling ...

One day last November some sunshine zoomed across 8 billion miles of space and slammed into an icy world that no human being had ever seen. The sunshine bounced. It headed back in the general ...

The black ring and central dot show infrared image of a distant galaxy distorted by a gravitation lens. Orange/reg shows radio waves from the same object. The inset shows a pinch caused by another, ...