Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it ...

Space is massive, and in many areas, amazingly beautiful. We are fortunate to live in a time when humans are able to see at ...

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The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

1 Department of Optical Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China. 2 Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

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Rings of a dying star are revealed in the nebula NGC 1514. The Webb Telescope reveals a chaotic scene long hidden from view.