It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

The team of astronomers from Europe and the US studied the "Einstein Cross", a famous cosmic mirage. This cross-shaped configuration consists of four images of a single very distant source. The ...

The first gravitational lens, a phenomenon in which light from a distant object is bent around a massive foreground object, was discovered in 1979 by a team led by Dr. Dennis Walsh from The University ...

Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age. Looking ...

One of the features of the OS X Dock is magnification—enable it in the Dock System Preferences panel, and icons in your Dock will magnify as you move your mouse over them. Some people love this effect ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of Earendel – the farthest star ever detected – reveal a massive B-type star that is more than twice as hot as our sun and a million times more ...

Astronomers have shown how gravitational lensing allows us to see the faintest and most distant galaxies, helping us to understand the origin of the Universe. Astronomers have shown how gravitational ...

Combining a double natural “magnifying glass” with the power of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have scrutinised the inner parts of the disc around a supermassive black hole 10 billion ...