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Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in…
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern…
What’s that bright star in the west after sunset? If you’ve been outside shortly after sunset this month, it’s likely…
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in…
NASA has revealed the discovery of seven new “dark comets,” bringing the total of this strange new class of objects…
Ask anyone what their favorite planet in the solar system is besides Earth, and very few will say Uranus or…
Astronomers have taken the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy and found it to be on the…
The old adage that we are stardust is literally true. But is there a link between a star’s given chemical…
Astronomers have discovered a star speeding at about 1.3 million miles per hour across our Milky Way galaxy. The star…
Astronomy is hard. Telescopes are fiddly, light pollution ruins much of what they can see anyway, and that’s before we…