A total lunar eclipse kicks off March. Jupiter is well placed most of the night, while Venus shines brilliantly and Uranus is ...
A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...
The well-known star Betelgeuse is Orion the Hunter’s alpha star. Shining at magnitude 0.5, this aging sun lies roughly 500 to 600 light-years away. It’s also one of the best candidates for the next ...
In July 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a “bit of scruff” in the radio data she was receiving at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Together with her Ph.D. advisor Antony Hewish, she zeroed ...
Tektites are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of large meteorites against Earth’s surface. Recently, a team of researchers found a new strewn field of them in the Brazilian state of ...
Already high in the east as darkness falls, Jupiter still dominates the constellation Gemini. The gas giant’s large moon Ganymede transits the disk this evening, with its shadow following a few hours ...
Mars’ moons are easily visible at night from the Red Planet. Larger Phobos is brighter, while smaller Deimos is still brighter than any star.
The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You can use this sparkling star to point your way to the open cluster M47 in ...
Observers in the eastern half of the U.S. can catch the large blot of Ganymede’s shadow sliding across the cloud tops of Jupiter as darkness falls this evening. The shadow is already transiting at ...
A few days ago, longtime Astronomy magazine contributor Chris Schur sent me the image you see here. It shows the famous Double Cluster in Perseus, also known as NGC 869 and NGC 884. Most images of ...
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