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Starting high in the Northern Hemisphere sky, I’ll be highlighting lots of stuff over the coming weeks and months. I’m going ...
The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is an odd reflection nebula surrounding a magnitude 7.4 star, SAO 19158, in the constellation ...
Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...
The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...
NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...
A meteor shower known for the speed of its shooting stars is expected to peak on Monday night, according to astronomers.
These meteors are fast-moving and often leave bright streaks across the night sky, visible to the naked eye for anywhere from several seconds to minutes.
The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo is easy to pick out by spotting a large backward question mark known as the Sickle. The bright star ...
One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...
Bright stars visible during May mornings include Arcturus in the west; Vega nearly overhead; with nearby Altair and Deneb completing the Summer Triangle; Antares in the southwest; and Fomalhaut rising ...
Greetings! We’re losing Mercury from our early morning skies, but Venus and Saturn will appear quite close together this week ...