PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER Houston native Dale Thomas Vaughn spent his childhood watching rockets blast off from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where his grandfather worked as an engineer. Last week he launched Space Bar in Market Square. The interplanetary pub isn’t a pop-up or a recreation of the Mos Eisley cantina from “Star Wars,” it’s…

PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER Houston native Dale Thomas Vaughn spent his childhood watching rockets blast off from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where his grandfather worked as an engineer. Last week he launched Space Bar in Market Square. The interplanetary pub isn’t a pop-up or a recreation of the Mos Eisley cantina from “Star Wars,” it’s…

If you’ve got one of the best telescopes, you may want one of the best telescope eyepieces as well. So this deal might pique your interest: As part of Amazon’s Cyber Monday sale, it has reduced 34% off the price of the Celestron accessory kit. Get 14 different eyepieces and filters for just $151.96 instead…

If you’ve got one of the best telescopes, you may want one of the best telescope eyepieces as well. So this deal might pique your interest: As part of Amazon’s Cyber Monday sale, it has reduced 34% off the price of the Celestron accessory kit. Get 14 different eyepieces and filters for just $151.96 instead…

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Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which are labelled in the JWST spectrum at the bottom. Although scientists regularly find these elements on Earth, astronomers rarely, if ever, observe many of them…

By Salena Fitzgerald / Published Nov 27, 2023 A team of Johns Hopkins researchers has developed a cutting-edge data science approach capable of matching observations of celestial objects taken across multiple telescope surveys, overcoming a significant challenge in modern astronomy. This new tool has the potential to enhance the accuracy and reliability of astronomical catalogs,…

An astrophotographer has found a patch of oxygen he’s named the Phantom Stinger Nebula, which appears to have been overlooked by generations of astronomers, amateur and professional alike. The discovery is part of a project by amateurs to explore the sky at a wavelength professional observatories are arguably neglecting – the 495.9-500.7 nanometer band where…

Moon Hong-kyu The author is the head of the Exploration Science Project Group at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.Last month, I attended the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. The IAC is an annual gathering of space experts from around the world, often attracting as many as 9,000…

The universe is vast — possibly even infinite — and in the scheme of things, our planet is tiny. Even in our own solar system, Earth is dwarfed by gas giants like Jupiter. But are there bigger planets out there? How much bigger? What is the biggest planet we know of? The answer depends on…