Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

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The Ursids meteor shower will reach its peak on the night of December 21 through the early hours of December 22.

A startling analysis from Globe at Night — a citizen science program run by NSF’s NOIRLab — concludes that stars are disappearing from human sight at an astonishing rate. The study finds that, to ...

The stars aren’t fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where there wasn’t one before, and then it fades away in a matter of days or weeks. The ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

The meteor shower is already active. It will reach its peak between late December 13 to the early hours of December 14.

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Astrophotography often misrepresents the naked-eye appearance of celestial colors, as cameras capture saturated colors unattainable by human vision due to limitations in photoreceptor sensitivity. The ...

In some ways, the stars above us are the ultimate equalizer: we're all equally far away, we all share the right to look up at them; and, tiny glittering pinpoints that they are, when we contemplate ...

Australian-born, Nashville-based artist Josh Rennie-Hynes returns with Stars in the Southern Sky, his most personal and ...