As we proceed into the heart of winter, this month’s Colorado sky displays a marvelous treasure trove of bright stellar gems ...
Planets continue their nighttime shows, with eight visible at points during February, including Venus on Feb. 14.
Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...
New year, new milestone: A cosmic quirk of nature has allowed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture images of 44 individual stars in a galaxy halfway ... on the right shoulder of the ...
Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...
In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...
The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus ...
Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe was only half as old as it is now. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Tel ...
These smudges of color become troves of scientific data. Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star" in ... Found in the constellation Serpens, the Eagle Nebula is about 6,500 ...
Meteor showers, or shooting stars, happen when Earth’s orbital ... The Orionids appear to radiate from the constellation Orion, which rises around 11 pm local time and is highest in the sky ...
Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...