With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside. That would be a mistake.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Venus, the brightest point of light in the sky, is two and a half fists held upright and at arm’s length above the ...
Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...
This groundbreaking observation focuses on the Orion Nebula, a colossal star-forming region merely 1,500 light-years from Earth, visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch below Orion’s belt. At the ...
Today: Saturn is just to the lower left of the very bright Venus, two and a half fists held upright and at arm’s length above due southwest at 6 p.m. And this is just the start of Solar System ...
So this comet, it’s got a lot of hype ... But you’ve got Orion out there with the Orion Nebula, which is an awesome sight to see through a telescope. You got the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star ...
On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...
When can I see Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS? The comet reached its peak brightness on January 13, 2025, and will remain visible for several days. Best viewing is just after sunset in the southwestern sky.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured C/2024 G3 "paying us a visit" in a striking photo released Jan. 11 on the social platform X.In the image, the comet's streaming tail makes it look like it is ...
A recently discovered comet is making a bright debut on Earth this month, and with some effort, skygazers might be able to see Comet ATLAS. Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS was discovered in April 2024 using the ...