In some cases, binoculars are a better bet.
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...
In January 2025, a rare planetary parade featuring Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus delighted sky watchers ...
Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night ...
which was a lot of "celestial real estate" for Hubble's pinpoint view. So, the panoramic mosaic required hundreds of snapshots taken across 1,000 orbits by the telescope, according to a NASA ...
Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.
One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 ...