Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The comet's closest approach to Earth at 26.4 million miles (42.5 million km) away. Credit: Gianluca Masi / ...

Seven years ago, an international collaboration of astronomers installed a state-of-the-art camera on a robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego. Today, this collaboration, named ...

The upshot is that almost everyone on the planet will have to use binoculars or a small telescope to glimpse comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The easiest way is to use a pair of binoculars—something I ...

To determine which transients are supernovae, ZTF shares a stream of nightly transient detections with the wider astronomical community so that other telescopes around the world can conduct follow ...

You’ll likely need a pair of binoculars or a small telescope to get a view of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), but first you need to find the North Star: How to find Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) Sunday ...

The streak from a Starlink satellite appears in this image of the Andromeda galaxy, taken by the Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, during twilight on May 19, 2021. The image shows only one ...

A new program to support surveys like ZTF and the upcoming Vera Rubin telescope, and monitor cosmic cataclysms, like super-novae Astronomy, space exploration and the question of life in the Universe ...

Some people have seen Comet A3 with an anti-tail in front, much like the one seen in this 2023 image of Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF ... Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile.