Explore the wonders of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky with our guide to the best celestial sights you can observe with ...

Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the diameter of our sun and 36.7 light years away. Boötes is chasing the Bears with ...

California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed of billions of stars. In late May, the ...

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for astronomers ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the mass of the Sun or lower. The spring night sky, however, offers us ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The scattered waves create a pattern of bright and dim patches that drifts over ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

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