Stargazers can find many locations throughout the country to explore the celestial wonders of the night sky, which serves as ...

Venus: Venus dazzles in the eastern sky before sunrise, shining brightly for a couple of hours each morning. It’s joined by ...

Coastal communities picking up the pieces after a powerful east coast low lashed NSW, Victoria to crack down on background ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

A rare celestial event is set to captivate skywatchers in January 2025, when six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

This is a clear picture of the moon taken with a long zoom lens with the milky way in the background (George Pachantouris, ©2022 George Pachantouris) HOUSTON – Tonight, skywatchers in Houston ...

Astronomers are often asked how the casual observer can distinguish planets from bright stars in the night sky. It is commonly thought, and with a certain degree of justification, that stars ...

Of course the sky is dark at night.” But that answer is wrong or, at best, incomplete, and the actual situation wasn’t obvious even to eminent scientists a century or so ago.

A decently dark site in a rural area has a sky background of about 21 mag/arcsec 2. In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado I’ve been to sites a bit darker than this, and it’s truly spectacular.

Posted: August 2, 2024 | Last updated: March 9, 2025 This artist wanted to speed paint an image of the night sky. After laying down a deep blue background, they splattered white stars on their canvas.