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This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

The reliable shower produces bright meteors associated with ... as the shooting stars will be visible across the night sky. Make sure to move your gaze around the nearby constellations as meteors ...

On a clear night, find a safe location with a dark sky away from bright lights, point your telescope skyward, and with the help of star and finder charts ... the upcoming month's list of target ...

Polaris, one of the most famous and important stars in the night sky, is spotty and absolutely huge, new research suggests.

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

The Landolt NASA Space Mission, hosted by George Mason University, will orbit an artificial star to refine telescope ...

Has something bright in the Eastern sky before dawn caught your eye? Recently, has it been shining brighter, rising a couple ...

A black hole's destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star ...

Jupiter and Mars are both easy finds. Go outside around 5:30 any morning this week and face west and you’ll see that the sky is full of bright stars. Find Orion the Hunter and the sky’s ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.