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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.
In December 2024, a groundbreaking study published in leading scientific journals by prominent astrophysicists revealed a chilling truth: our Sun, a yellow dwarf, is...
This February, skywatchers have the opportunity to witness an extraordinary phenomenon that has been over 2,400 years in the making. This unique celestial event...
The Sun, the colossal fireball at the center of our solar system, has exhibited more activity than scientists anticipated this year, which could lead...
The object was observed for such a brief period that gathering adequate information about its size and proximity to the Sun was not possible....
Is the entire universe composed of a single atom? Or perhaps we exist within the Matrix, and the world is merely an illusion? Could...
Mounted on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at the U.S. National Trust’s Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, there is a scientific instrument...
Those who thought the Sun was well studied have most likely never heard of the mystery of its differential rotation: the equator of our...
Before your eyes is a computer model that shows a supercluster of galaxies called Laniakea, and our place in it. The red dot in the...