A tiny right before sunrise on July 4, A.D. 1054, imperial astronomers of the Track Dynasty in China noticed an unfamiliar star lights up the eastern sky. “It’s as vibrant as Venus, with pointed rays in all four instructions and a reddish-white color,” they wrote in notes delivered to the […]
Nebula
Unrivaled View of Brilliant ‘Planetary Nebula’ NGC 2899
A star at the heart of this tie-dye apparition is collapsing, a method scientists have viewed and calculated for decades. In 2020 astronomers overcame the 3,000 to 6,500 light-several years separating us from this celestial magnificence, named NGC 2899, for the clearest photo of it but. However the phenomenon is […]