A telescope in Chile has spent years working on by far the most precise map of the earliest visible universe. It now reveals ...

One of the most common habits that I see on my beginner’s workshops is that everything is centred with hardly any space left around ... and easily expose your image correctly. As a basic rule if the ...

This is not the blackness of empty space; it's a pair of diametrically opposed regions of thick dust. Almost no light pierces this ... It's able to spot dim yet visible background stars beyond L483.

Just as a printer combines layers of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink to create a full-color image ... No big deal. This faint, diffuse light, often called the “extragalactic background ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's first few hundred thousand years are shrouded in an impenetrable fog.

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...