The event produces some of the year’s fastest meteors, although the nearly full moon may make them challenging to spot.
The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...
The law was adopted in 1999 to "to regulate outdoor night lighting fixtures to preserve and enhance the state's dark sky while promoting safety, conserving energy and preserving the environment." The ...
There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...
The wildfire in New Jersey claimed the life of one parks employee and continues to rage as National Weather Service issues ...
I've added arrows to show how you can use Orion (shown in the center of the map below) to hop around the summer sky. To learn ...
How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...
The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...
The growing trend of astrotourism continues to draw new travellers to the wonders of the night sky in places where light ...
Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...
The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey has unveiled a groundbreaking catalog detailing distances to millions of galaxies with unparalleled precision. A groundbreaking catalog, detailing milli ...
On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...