Planet-sized telescopes could be possible using quantum technique

Before telescopes, Chinese astronomers in the Song dynasty made naked eye observations of solar phenomena during sunrises/sunsets or through clouds. It was recorded on 11 January CE 1077, in the sun were black spots as large as plums

Park rangers use butterflies to take planet's pulse in a biodiversity hotspot

Swirling gas around a young star is giving birth to a far-off planet that's about 9 times the mass of Jupiter and located twice as far from its star as Pluto is from the Sun. The oddly massive but distant world is forcing astronomers to rethink how planets form in the first place.