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Neptune and Saturn are two Moon-widths apart all month, while the morning sky hosts Venus and Uranus together in Taurus.
July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed large-scale radio observations of a ...
Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...
Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...
That's because on June 22, a triangular arrangement of the waning crescent moon flanked by Venus and the Pleiades star ...
While rockets today take humans to space as often as earthbound folks drive to the grocery store, traveling beyond the ...
The celebration of Matariki and Puanga, the Māori New Year, dates back over 700 years. The rising of Puanga (Rigel in Orion) and the Matariki star cluster (Pleiades) marks a time to reflect on the ...
These dark sky sanctuaries, reserves, parks, and trails invite you to immerse yourself in the wonders of our night skies.
This week the night sky plays host to one of the spectacular cosmic events when the moon crosses the Pleiades, more popularly known as "Seven Sisters"-the dazzling star cluster.
Star cluster: M45 The Pleiades. Image 1 of 4. Apple iPhone 16 ... so the challenge in capturing this famous star cluster is contending against the ... M42 The Great Orion Nebula. Image 1 of 7.