Though Fritz Zwicky is not well known to the public today, astronomers around the world, decades after his death in 1974, still gleefully gossip about his infamous professional battles and outrageous ...

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In the late 1950s, there was a nontrivial global effort, a race in fact, to be the first nation to send an object to Earth’s orbit. Sputnik 1, Earth’s first artificial satellite, was launched 65 years ...

This distant ring of galaxies is the 388th entry in volume 8 of the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies compiled by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky. As such, it’s referred to as VIII ZW ...

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This composite image of the Andromeda galaxy was made by combining images from the Zwicky Transient Facility in three bands of visible light. The image covers 2.9 square degrees, which is ...

(Image: The Horsehead nebula can be seen in this portion of the "first light" image from ZTF.) A new surveying telescope at Caltech will take high definition photos of the northern sky every night, ...

Science journalist Johnson (Peppermint Twist, coauthor) presents a well-rounded biography of the brilliant, contrarian scientist Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974). Zwicky, who as a young man left his homeland ...

Scientists have discovered a new supernova—a star exploding after collapsing under its own gravity—thanks to a curve in spacetime. In comes in the wake of the discovery of SN 2023ixf, a supernova just ...