A handful of planets in the solar system are expected to line up in the night sky for a few days in January 2025. Here's when ...

But for thousands of years, people from all over the globe have tried to make sense of this chaos by organizing the seemingly countless points of light into groups — or constellations — that ...

Astronomy contributor Rod Pommier gave this ... Credit: Daniel Beaulieu Next up is the second (and last) Messier object in the constellation, open cluster M103 (NGC 581). To find it, look 1 ...

It's one of 88 constellations in the National Science ... NOIRLab is the U.S. national center for ground-based, nighttime optical astronomy.

When we look up at the night sky, we see familiar stars and constellations that have been visible for thousands of years. Yet stars do not last forever. They live and die, though on exceptionally ...

The constellation, dubbed Capella, is a brainchild of Seoul National University astronomy professor Sascha Trippe. An expert in black holes, Trippe has grown frustrated with the limitations of ...

Read how astrophysicist Ethan Siegel thinks SpaceX can fix the damage Starlink satellites are causing to astronomy, published in Forbes. Boley, A., Byers, M. Satellite mega-constellations create ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

You can also find great astronomy related activities in the PBS Teachers website. Sky Heroes [GRADE 3 AND UP] Decide whom you would honor with a place in the sky if we updated the constellations.

Its features include: Families can enjoy astronomy at various levels of involvement—starting with getting to know the constellations and going all the way to participating in telescope observing ...