A handful of planets in the solar system are expected to line up in the night sky for a few days in January 2025. Here's when ...

Astronomy contributor Rod Pommier gave this ... Credit: Daniel Beaulieu Next up is the second (and last) Messier object in the constellation, open cluster M103 (NGC 581). To find it, look 1 ...

It's one of 88 constellations in the National Science ... NOIRLab is the U.S. national center for ground-based, nighttime optical astronomy.

When we look up at the night sky, we see familiar stars and constellations that have been visible for thousands of years. Yet stars do not last forever. They live and die, though on exceptionally ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus ...

but the constellations, the Milky Way, and deep-sky objects too. Let’s take a look at some of the astronomy apps that are available, as well as a few others which, while they aren’t anything ...

Read how astrophysicist Ethan Siegel thinks SpaceX can fix the damage Starlink satellites are causing to astronomy, published in Forbes. Boley, A., Byers, M. Satellite mega-constellations create ...

Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in Egypt, built upon Babylonian knowledge in his geocentric model of the ...

You'll see those stars better if you remove the nebula filter. As you can see by this list, the Queen contains many objects worthy of a look - a long, highly magnified look. The post Explore the ...