The elusive “Blaze Star” nova (also called T Coronae Borealis/T CrB) may erupt around March 27, appearing as a naked eye star ...

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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is a breathtaking collection of stars, dust and gas that appears as a luminous band stretching across the night sky. Photographing it requires a dark location free ...

As the moon reflects the sun's light, the shadow dims the moon's glow. During the peak of a total lunar eclipse, the moon ...

Frozen fuel from the Falcon 9 rocket launched Monday created a luminous display for several minutes, and was seen by people ...

There’s also a full lunar eclipse to look forward to, and one of Venus’ periodic transitions from evening star to morning ... to identify in the night sky. However, during the first two ...

Venus is also known as 'the Evening Star' or 'the Morning Star' because it is the brightest celestial object in the night sky, apart from the moon. 'Saturn will be clearly fainter than the other ...