A new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several mysterious bright spots in the sky. These transient objects, captured on film ...
The first astronomers had a limited toolkit: their eyes. They could only observe those stars, planets and celestial events bright enough to pick up unassisted. But today’s astronomers use increasingly ...
In the year 1054, a new star appeared in the constellation Taurus. The faint speck of light brightened rapidly, soon outshining other imposing stars in the northern sky. In a matter of days, the ...
Shrinivas Kulkarni The Indian-American astronomer has won the 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. (Courtesy: Chris S Flynn Photography/CC BY-SA 3.0) Shrinivas Kulkarni has won the 2024 Shaw Prize in ...