Noctilucent cloud season is upon us. If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, keep your head to the skies at sunset ...

A crescent moon will, for a short time after sunset on Thursday, May 29, 2025, appear below two bright stars to create the illusion of a "smiley face" in the night sky.

Aaron Watson captured slightly more than he bargained for when setting up a timelapse to capture airglow and the Milky Way.

“She is obviously trying to distract from the fact that she got caught out doing the exact crimes that she pretended Donald Trump was doing when she went after him,” Ms Ungar-Sargon told Sky ...

Astrophysicist Or Graur, an associate professor at the University of Portsmouth, identified a striking visual detail of the Milky Way while examining depictions of the sky goddess Nut. His findings, ...

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum OAM 52976 (C107). Nut’s body is covered in stars as well as a thick ...

But the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced “Noot”) had one of the most important roles. Nut literally stood over her earth god brother, Geb, protecting him from the void’s floodwaters. She also was ...

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