Of all the constellations we see through the year, Virgo the Virgin is the second-largest. The only problem is that it’s also one of the faintest. With a lot of visual digging, Virgo can be ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first image release includes a 'staggering' view of 10 million galaxies in and around the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Admittedly, Virgo is not a constellation for beginners. It is a real challenge, although this week offers a better chance of spotting it because there is hardly any moonlight in the early evening sky.

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera C.

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

With the naked eye, look high to Virgo’s northern border near Constellation Coma Berenices to find 70 Virginis at magnitude 4.97. This 7.9 billion year old binary has an exoplanet with a mass of ...

Moon marks the halfway point between the New Moon and the Full Moon. It appears as a half-illuminated disk with the right half visible from the Northern Hemisphere and the left half visible from the ...

The Night Sky This Week: April 7-13, 2025 The stars and constellations of spring may be dominating the night sky, but we’re about to lose them to a full moon.