On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

NGC 685, a smaller cousin of our Milky Way, dazzles with youthful energy as newborn stars light up its spiral arms.

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

In fact, our word "planet" comes from the Greek term for wandering star: planētes asteres. Astronomy and the star of Bethlehem The modern word "astronomy" derives from the Greek word for star, astron.

“To me, any star would be the Star of Bethlehem.” The Institute of Astronomy is open to the public every Wednesday evening 7 - 9pm from 08 January until March. Entrance is free. More details on the ...

These events present us with our first astronomy puzzle of the first Christmas: How could King Herod’s own advisors have been unaware of a star so bright and obvious that it could have led the wise ...

The "Star of Bethlehem" show is — or was — to planetariums ... the "Christmas Star" show is interspersed with other programs, like "Astronomy Tonight" (7 p.m. Dec. 7) and "The Sky Above ...

With modern computer software, it's easy for astronomers to calculate the positions of stars thousands of years ago, at the click of a button. Before computers, ancient astronomers had to plot the ...

Astronomy/Roen Kelly What about a mash-up of planets like the Great Conjunction of 2020? Could that explain the Star of Bethlehem? When you rewind the motion of the planets — something that’s ...