In this video we go to South America! In the Atacama Desert, Chile, we find the most advanced technology for space observation. Here, the Royal Astronomical Community members watched for six months as a black hole simply absorbed a massive star. By the way, these are the same scientists who proved t...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is slated to be the first in a new class of extremely large telescopes, capable of producing images with 10 times the clarity of those captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The GMT aims to discover Earth-like planets around nearby stars and the tiny distortions t...

Landscape photographers can take a stroll outside and have all the available light they crave – unless of course they are using light pouring in from a window. But for the most part, studio photography involves setting up elaborate lighting, stands, and modifiers. Light is a type of energy. It is a

Bern's clock tower inspired Albert Einstein Marti has maintained the machine for nearly 40 years. That morning, it clicked with authority – a hypnotizing sound like a heartbeat – inside a thick-walled stone room far removed from the city below. Time itself, one feels, might live here.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a galaxy that could make us revise our cosmology models. It's a galaxy named CEERS-1749, which could be the farthest galaxy to date. Astronomers have nicknamed this galaxy Schrodinger's galaxy because it could be at two places at once....

Astronomers are combing through fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope in a never-ending quest to find ever-more-distant galaxies. However, the observatory is still studying a variety of objects, from insanely detailed images of Jupiter to the most distant known star.

On April 10, 2019, the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration revealed humanity's first glimpse of a black hole. The EHT Collaboration consists of 13 stakeholder institutes; the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the University of Arizona, the University of C

American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote and narrated a YouTube piece for Minute Physics called A Brief History of Everything, with the scientist explaining and condensing the epic 16 billion year history of the universe into a succinct eight minute video. While the basic co

This movie of the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 and 131 Angstrom wavelength. One of the most dramatic features is the way the entire surface of the sun seems to ripple with the force of the eruption. This movement comes from something called...

Dr Tony Padilla on some recent work he has been doing on the ultimate faith of the universe.