Some of the brightest stars in the night sky, such as Sirius and Vega, are A-type stars. University of California, Berkeley, astronomers now report a new, Neptune-sized planet -- called HD 56414 b ...

Betelgeuse, the most famous red supergiant star and one of the sky's brightest, will disappear for up to 12 seconds during an ultra-rare occultation by asteroid 319 Leona. When you purchase ...

BlueWalker 3 has a magnitude of just +0.4, meaning if it were a star, it would be one of the ten brightest in the sky. To put the figure into context, the North Star reaches a magnitude of +2.

One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse. The rare and fleeting spectacle ...

It contains three stars, and Proxima Centauri is nearest, 4.25 light years away. Venus, pictured here, is the brightest of the planets in our solar system. No planet other planet will be brighter ...

PEOPLE often make the common mistake of thinking the North Star, Polaris, is our brightest in the sky. But they're wrong. Sirius - also known as the Dog Star - is the most visible star seen in our ...

What is the brightest star in the sky? Sirius - also known as the Dog Star - is the most visible star seen in our sky at night. It is around 23 times brighter than the sun, but much further away ...

The brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, is easily visible in January if you know when and where to look! The star Sirius is an interesting object and one that is relatively close to our planet.

The brightest star in the sky is, of course, the Sun, the closest to us (150 million kilometers, or 8 light-minutes away) and the one around which the Earth orbits.

One starting point is to learn to find the brightest ones. In a rural sky dense with stars, the brightest serve as helpful signposts to orient yourself. And even just outside of cities ...