The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

Spot the Broken Engagement Ring asterism near Merak in Ursa Major, easily viewed with binoculars or a low-power telescope.

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...

Credit: A Rainbow Mosaic of the Rosette and the Christmas Tree Nebulae © Shaoyu Zhang Behold! The 2025 ZWO Astronomy ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc ...

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

That’s right, by listening to the sounds that a star makes, scientists can learn a lot about the star itself. This is a field known as asteroseismology and works by measuring waves as they pass ...

M4 is a globular star cluster in the Scorpius constellation. Antares, Scorpius' brightest star, helps locate M4. M4 is visible to the naked eye, but a telescope shows more detail. Good luck!

Astronomy Update is provided by the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society and is compiled by Dr. Lauren Likkel.