From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you ... The good news is that you won't need a telescope to see this spectacular celestial display ...

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you ... The good news is that you won't need a telescope to see this spectacular celestial display ...

So you send a couple of pandas. Or telescopes! Or some other symbol that seems witty. This is another aspect of emoji—many are open-ended. You’d think that would make them less language-like ...

“We use the boat emoji a lot when we’re talking about ... NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a gamma-ray telescope in space, automatically detected the blast October 9 around 10:15 ...

Of course, clear skies will be essential to view the full “space emoji,” and observers can pick up a pair of binoculars or line up a backyard telescope to get a better glimpse, before the ...