Contemporary Astronomy · Asteria Star

Overview

Twenty-first-century astronomy works in many messengers at once — light, gravitational waves, and particles. Thousands of exoplanets, the first images of black holes, and observatories like JWST are reshaping our picture of the universe and the search for life.

Astronomers

Discoveries

Publications

A Brief History of Time1988 CE

Knowledge connections

ContainsStephen Hawking
ContainsMichel Mayor
ContainsDidier Queloz
ContainsJane Luu
ContainsReinhard Genzel
ContainsAndrea Ghez
ContainsSaul Perlmutter
ContainsBrian Schmidt
ContainsAdam Riess
ContainsNeil deGrasse Tyson
ContainsThe First Kuiper Belt Object
ContainsThe First Exoplanet Around a Sun-like Star
ContainsThe Accelerating Universe
ContainsThe First Detection of Gravitational Waves
ContainsThe Milky Way's Central Black Hole
ContainsThe First Image of a Black Hole
ContainsJWST's First Science Images
ContainsA Brief History of Time
ContainsGaia Catalogue
Associated withBig Science
Associated withThe Data & AI Revolution

Sources & references

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.
ESOEuropean Southern Observatory
Southern-hemisphere observatory data and imagery (VLT, ALMA partner).

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