EditorialAn undated photo provided by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile shows the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope dome, where a Dark Energy Camera detects asteroids that orbit between Earth and the sun. (CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Munizaga via The New York Times)
EditorialAn artist’s depiction of the hot gas giant WASP-39b, some 700 light-years from Earth. ( NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI)/The New York Times)