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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the early morning hours of May 22 and ...
Our solar system’s largest planet stands just north of Zeta Tau, the tip of one of Taurus the Bull’s two horns.
Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point ...
Calling this object a “nebula” is a bit of a misnomer, but galaxy IC 2574 does feature impressively large star-forming regions.
JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.
Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...
The Coma Cluster is a rich group of galaxies visible in Coma Berenices, high in the southern sky late this evening.
India’s Kutch region offers a combination of unique landscapes and dark skies.
A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...
The astronomer Halton C. Arp (1927–2013) was a very well-known researcher of galaxies and other distant objects. He is ...
Sophisticated computational models let us examine objects such as supernova remnants in extraordinary detail and from every angle.