A free public lecture 7 p.m. Thursday at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Timberdell Road and Chautauqua Avenue, will provide information about how scientists calculate astronomical ...

Pasadena, CA — Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by extending a common measurement ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a blazing heat from a bright, lonely spiral galaxy called UGC 9391. But even though it lacks a companion, it serves as a guiding light for every astronomer who is ...

distance scale, as well as to research the stellar life-cycle. relationship to distance. A 100-watt light bulb one mile away looks exactly as bright as a 25-watt light bulb half a mile away. So to ...

Spring is galaxy season. If you have a small telescope, this is a good time of year to get it out to find galaxies in the sky. Because most will appear as dim fuzzy blobs, a detailed star chart is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anyone interested in astronomy realizes that the stars are scattered through three-dimensional ...

What is the nature of dark energy, a recently discovered dominant constituent of the Universe today? Is expansion-accelerating dark energy an intrinsic property of space-time itself or rather a field ...

Pasadena, CA -- Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by extending a common measurement ...