Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...
Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...
Bode's galaxy, which sits about 11.5 light-years away, can even be seen as a fuzzy blob through binoculars, according to BBC Sky at Night. With a telescope, you might even be able to see some blueish ...
Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...
• Antares – “Scorpion’s Heart”, a giant red carbon star in Scorpius, found about 550 light-years away, and 10,000 times brighter than our sun! • M4 – a globular cluster of stars, discovered in 1746, ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...
Elizabeth Hays, chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard, told ABC7 in a live interview that this "zombie star" explodes in a blaze of light every 80 years or so, due to it ...
Fall is an incredible time for amateur astronomers to get out there and look at the night sky. Some of the most recognizable and bright objects that can be seen in the night sky make their ...
While the world of astrology is abuzz with the apparent movement of the dwarf planet Pluto, I want to talk about Andromeda, ...