Did you know that you can see the closest spiral galaxy next to our own in the sky? While binoculars and telescopes will offer much better views, it’s still possible to see it with your naked eye if ...
Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...
How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...
The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...
Spot November’s supermoon, Leonids peak, and Uranus at opposition, plus a dark-sky new moon and a Moon-Saturn pairing. Here’s ...
Add Mercury’s best morning appearance of the year, and November 2025 is a great month for taking cameras and tripods outside ...
On September 19th, a close conjunction of the Moon, Venus, and Regulus will be observable in the eastern sky before sunrise. The Andromeda Galaxy (M31), along with its companion galaxies M32 and NGC ...
Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by faint hydrogen alpha (Ha) clouds taken with a DSLR camera back in 2020, and inspired by the recent discovery by ...
The best news for stargazers in November is that nights are much longer and you can start your stargazing well before 7 p.m.
The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...
Striking new evidence for a mass immigration of stars into the Andromeda Galaxy has been uncovered by researchers led by astronomers at NSF’s NOIRLab. The team used the DOE’s Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...
A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 ...