The farthest known object in the solar system has been confirmed. Farfaurot, a giant rock found at a distance of about 132 astronomical units from the Sun in 2018, has been studied and characterized, and now we know a lot more about it and its orbit. It is around 400 …
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On December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will cross paths in the night sky and for a short moment, they will appear shining together as one body. While connections to planets like these are not everyday occurrences, they are not particularly rare. This year the alliance is different for at …
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In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska made a presentation showing interesting things while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She began to see very strange shapes that could not easily fit into any known type of to-budget. Of those, labeled by Anna WTF?, Was a picture of a haunted …
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The world’s most advanced telescopes weren’t built for today’s temperatures, and they mess with our observations of the night sky. Three decades of value data – the home of the Paranal Observatory (the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (VLT)) in northern Chile – reveals many ways in which climate …
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Away from the glare of the blinding lights of civilization, an unobstructed view of the night sky makes you feel as if you are standing on the edge of eternity. But there is a place on Earth where the views extend a little more than anywhere else. The researchers have …
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