Astronomers spot a vast, mysterious circle in space
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have...
Astronomers Find Protoplanetary Disks in Orion Molecular Clouds
Astronomers using NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have detected 97 disks of gas and dust around young protostars in the constellation of...
Starlink satellite streaks: How big of a problem are they?
Professional and amateur astronomers alike are experiencing Starlink craft photobombing their shots. The problem isn’t likely to get better — but there is something you can do. By now you have heard...
Carbon footprint of huge astronomy observatories raises climate change concerns
Astronomers in the future may not be able to build large complex power-hungry observatories if they want to reduce their carbon footprint in line with greenhouse gas emission requirements, a study...
