Here we explore some of the brightest stars in our night sky. ... A 2019 study estimated the rotation period at less than 8 hours, resulting in a flattening of Altair's shape by around 20 percent.

To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery. The multitude of stars that join our planets in populating an evening sky are fairly anonymous. The brightest star, and the nearest ...

The bright star lower left is Zeta Puppis. Credit: CLEOsat/Oukaimeden Observatory/IAU CPS/A.E. Kaeouach Observation of a BlueWalker 3 pass from Oukaimeden Observatory on Nov. 16 2022.

A brighter, more obvious crescent moon will tonight be positioned about halfway between Venus, to its lower right, and bright star Spica, to its upper left. One of the 20 brightest stars in the ...

20 times. The brightest star is the Sirius star. The Sirius star is also called the Dog star. The Dog star is a part of the Canis Majoris, or "Big Dog" constellation.

Sirius, the brightest star, has a visual magnitude of -1.46. It is part of the constellation Canis Major (the Greater Dog) ...

NASA launches Psyche mission to metal-rich asteroid 08:53. 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 ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, may have a secret sunlike companion that drives the star’s mysterious six-year-long "heartbeat," new research suggests.