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Astrophysics

Perhaps due to Japan's temperate climate, the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu is more gentle and benevolent than some other sun deities.

space exploration

How Can Myths Help Us Understand the Stars? AO Wants to Know.

Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier teaches science through storytelling.

Andrew Coletti March 20, 2025

Artist's impression of the Milky Way.

Podcast: Marching Through the Galaxy With Moiya McTier

The award-winning astrophysicist and folklorist takes us on a tour of the Milky Way.

The Podcast Team March 21, 2024

Scientists track the "ghosts" of the upper atmosphere.

Scientists Finally Find Mysterious Mesospheric Ghosts

The midwest is particularly filled with them.

Olivia Young December 20, 2023

The Milky Way rises above Pakistan's Karakoram Mountain Range.

The 8 Best Astronomy Books For Beginners

From Mary Roach’s hilarious look at space travel to astronaut Scott Kelly’s photos documenting a year off planet.

Sarah Durn August 10, 2023

An artist's visual rendering of noisy gravitational waves.

Stargazing in a Multi-Sensory Universe

Sight is only one of the senses we can use to explore space. Welcome to multi-messenger astronomy.

Rebecca Boyle August 2, 2023

Spektrum-Weg

Potsdam, Germany

Spektrum-Weg

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs.

Great Refractor Potsdam

Potsdam, Germany

Großer Refraktor (Great Refractor)

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

Gray and Yellowfly standing beside one of the interferometer at LIGO's 2.5-mile-long arms.

native americans

Meet the Mother-Son Duo Translating Astrophysics Into Blackfoot

Corey Gray and Sharon Yellowfly want to bring gravitational wave astronomy to speakers of the language.

Sabrina Imbler April 19, 2019

La Specola Observatory

This old medieval prison tower has been a site of astronomical research for more than 250 years.

The Milky Way as observed from the Chilean desert.

space exploration

Found: First Evidence of Planets Outside the Milky Way

3.8 billion light-years is really, really far away.

Vittoria Traverso February 5, 2018

The piece contains 3,115 hand-blown glass bulbs

Chicago, Illinois

Lucent

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

An image of Kepler's supernova remnant from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

A Short History of the Supernova, From Ancient China to the New 'Zombie Star'

Going out with a bang.

Vittoria Traverso November 10, 2017