The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Here we can see the Moon (with Earth shining ... hypnotic Milky Way in all of its glory. The galaxy is thought to contain around 300 billion stars and even more planets, a figure that’s as ...

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It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our moon ... million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting ...

I was planning to write this column about tonight’s (Thursday’s) lunar eclipse, but the storm dictates otherwise (I’m ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

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The Large Magellanic Cloud is an irregularly shaped galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, along with other dwarf star clusters ... Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon This Month On March 14, skywatchers ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...

This type of eclipse happens when Earth blocks the light from the sun that normally illuminates the moon, resulting in it ... Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way Fast-moving ...