In 1665, Isaac Newton discovered the spectrum of light by passing a beam of sunlight through a glass prism in his room. He also experimented with his own eyes by inserting a bodkin (a blunt needle) ...

What was the real breakthrough behind Isaac Newton’s discovery of light? 🌈 Uncover the hidden story, the experiments, and ...

Sundogs, also known as mock suns or parhelia, are bright patches of light that appear to the left, right, or sometimes on both sides of the real sun.

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionised iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula ...

In this case, RXJ0528+2838 is orbited by a still-living star similar in size to our sun. In such cases, material from the ...

"The surprise that a supposedly quiet, discless system could drive such a spectacular nebula was one of those rare 'wow' ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

This important exhibition at the National Gallery in London is exactly the kind of thing our biggest public galleries – in ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes from a European team led by astronomers at University College London and ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

The discovery reminds us just how little we really know about our galaxy In A Nutshell The Mystery: Evidence suggests dust is ...