The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by ...

Explore the wonders of the night sky with our guide to the best celestial sights you can observe with binoculars between ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

In February, the constellation Orion, “the hunter,” dominates the night sky. First ... is the Orion Nebula (M42). This misty patch is the closest region to the solar system where massive ...

He began taking photographic plates of the spiral nebulae. These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using a light-sensitive emulsion covering their surface. The telescope’s size let ...

As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes, they were intrigued by fuzzy patches of light called nebulae. Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star ...