You know, after decades of pointing optics toward the sky, I consider myself a knowledgeable observer. But while researching the Pleiades a few months back, I was surprised to learn that it wasn't the ...

Weather permitting, the International Space Station will be making some visible evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies to start off Spring. Its orbit may change, and I've only listed the best ...

NGC 602 is a young, bright open star cluster located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, and is embedded in a nebula known as N90. Cepheus B, a molecular cloud ...

Consulting the oracle, King Cepheus was advised to sacrifice his daughter ... It can be located from mirach, the second brightest star in Andromeda. The galaxy appears as a diffuse patch in the sky ...

Well, with a Cepheus variable star ... changes from bright to dim and back fairly regularly. The bright star on the front of this lithograph is an example of a Cepheid variable.

below Leo in the stars of early Spring. On Tuesday, the station will appear at 8:44 PM in Eridanus in the WSW, pass through Cetus, Aries, and Perseus before entering our shadow in dim Camelopardalis ...

In the coming days ahead, if any of your friends or relatives remark to you that they saw a "strange UFO" on the way to work ...

The second brightest star in the sky Canopus is the second brightest star in the sky. Its apparent magnitude is -0.72. It is located about 36° south of Sirius, within the constellation Carina. To ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and use just your eyes to make a giant figure ...

If it does, it should become about as bright as the North Star, the 48th brightest star in the night sky. T Corona Borealis is a binary star system around 3,000 light-years away in the ...

Article continues below Ms Boland described her daughter as "the brightest star" and "the light of our lives." Sobbing repeatedly, she observed "She brought a sense of magic to the everyday.