From Guam, in April and May, there’s a half-hour period each evening when you can see eight of the ten brightest stars, 15 of the 20 brightest stars, the three most famous constellations and the ...

A brilliant new class of cosmic explosions has been uncovered—so powerful they outshine anything scientists have ever seen.

Any clear winter night this month, look south between 8 and 10 p.m. to spot the large hourglass shape of Orion the Hunter. In its middle, three equally bright stars ...

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.

Summer arrives for northern observers as the Moon visits Venus, Uranus, and Mercury. Plus: globular cluster M15, double star ...

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 ...

In a rural sky dense with stars, the brightest serve as helpful signposts to orient ... Vega was the first star to be photographed, with a 20-minute daguerreotype exposure taken at Harvard College ...

Eight of the 20 brightest stars in the entire sky – a ring of multicolored jewels encircling the constellation Orion – shine every winter night.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Skywatchers can catch a glimpse of a one-in-160,000-year comet in January, the brightest of its kind in nearly 20 years. Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) was the third comet discovered in ...