Astronomy

The latest upgrade, 20 years since the opening of the New Digital Planetarium and almost 60 years since it opened its doors - The historical journey, the present and the goals for the future of the biggest and best planetarium in the world

While parked ahead of a pause in duties for the Mars solar conjunction, Curiosity put its Hazcams to another use

For astronomers peering into the depths of the universe, Christmas came a little early this year.

The astronomical summer begins in Bulgaria at 5:57 p.m. today, when it is also the summer solstice, according to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

The fish market in the southern province of Hatay's İskenderun district, which faced massive destruction in the deadly Feb. 6 quakes, has reopened its stalls with the completion of renovation works.

The fish market in the district's center was mostly destroyed in the twin earthquake that jolted the country's southern provinces in early February.

Astronomers said on May 12 they have identified the "largest" cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ago.

On May 5, amateur astronomers will be able to track the second eclipse of the year and the first lunar eclipse from the Earth's penumbra.

Earlier this year, astronomers announced that a tiny world beyond Neptune with a diameter about one-third that of Earth's moon possessed a Saturn-like ring that should not be there. It now turns out that there are two such "impossible" rings.

Astronomers said on April 26 that for the first time they have confirmed what ignites quasars, the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, which put galaxies in their "death throes."

These celestial behemoths form when two galaxies smash into each other, the astronomers said, warning that this could be the Milky Way's fate in a few billion years.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was still in its infancy, new research said on April 4.