There is much more to the familiar Ring Nebula (M57), however, than can be seen through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but […]

The smallest of the three partial solar eclipses during 2018 was just yesterday, Friday, July 13. It was mostly visible over the open ocean between Australia and Antarctica. Still, this […]

Sundials use the location of a shadow to measure the Earth’s rotation and indicate the time of day. So it’s fitting that this sundial, at the Very Large Array Radio […]

Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy also known as NGC 5128, is featured […]

You can see it change in brightness with just binoculars over the course of a year. Variable star R Aquarii is actually an interacting binary star system, two stars that […]

It’s northern noctilucent cloud season — perhaps a time to celebrate! Composed of small ice crystals forming only during specific conditions in the upper atmosphere, noctilucent clouds may become visible […]

What’s that light at the end of the road? Mars. This is a good month to point out Mars to your friends and family because our neighboring planet will not […]

Near a summer’s midnight a mist haunts the river bank in this dreamlike skyscape taken on July 3rd from northern Denmark. Reddened light from the Sun a little below the […]

A darkened and mysterious north polar region known to some as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution view. The portrait of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, was captured by New Horizons […]

If you saw the dawn’s early light from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last Friday, June 29, then you could have seen this rocket’s red glare. The single 277-second long […]