NASA released new snaps of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in August. The Hubble Space Telescope has also taken Jupiter images, but Webb reveals details Hubble couldn't see.
This Cassini image captured Saturn’s moon Pan (25 kilometers, or 16 miles, across) just after the little moon emerged from Saturn’s shadow. Pan orbits within the narrow Encke Gap (300 kilometers, or ...
The Shroud of Turin shows the faint image of a man—bearded, injured, arms crossed. Some believe it’s the burial cloth of Jesus. Others argue it’s a medieval forgery. A new study supports the latter.
No other comet has ever been observed this far — 4200 million km from the Sun — or that faint — nearly 1000 million times fainter than what can be perceived with the unaided eye. This observation is a ...
Great telescopes such as the 200-incher on Palomar Mountain were designed for gathering faint starlight from a wide area and concentrating it in an image bright enough to make a photograph in a ...
While the Hubble Space Telescope has been snapping gorgeous photos of Jupiter for decades, new Jupiter images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in August, invite comparison. Studied side by side ...
Seventeen years after the last passage of Comet Halley, the ESO Very Large Telescope at Paranal (Chile) has captured a unique image of this famous object as it cruises through the outer solar system.