His Bavarian forest sound installation, "Nature of the Night Sky," can be experienced every evening at sundown through September 18th. You can learn more at his website, JeffTalman.com. This is ...

For some reason most people think the North Star—called Polaris—is the brightest star in the night sky, probably because it’s one of the few that they can easily name.

Lintern advises reading up on the night sky before heading out. Free mobile apps, such as Star Walk 2 , can help identify celestial bodies and are easy to use—simply point your phone at the sky ...

The brightest star in the night sky is the Sirius star. According to NASA, it is over 20 times brighter than our sun and twice as massive, though it might not appear that way to the naked eye.

According to NASA, it’s been nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each other in the sky, and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night, as ...

This gorgeous eight-hour exposure reveals the colors of stars as they make their way across the night sky, colors that can inform astronomers about the characteristics of each star.

On May 24, 2015, at 3 a.m., filmmaker Ben Canales sat on a ridge overlooking the gleaming lights of Telluride, Colorado. One by one, blocks of streetlamps winked off far below. Canales had ...

For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars ...

Human observers know that at night the stars trace circles in the sky as Earth spins on its axis. Those circles shrink for more northern stars — and the northernmost, Polaris, doesn’t seem to ...

Sure, there are plenty of places in Wisconsin where the sky gets dark enough — unimpeded by city lights — to see it awash with stars. But perhaps you're looking for a stargazing spot that's ...

By Joel Crabtree & Mary Pols From our November 2024 issue. John Meader runs a company called Northern Stars Planetarium, traveling around the midcoast and central Maine with an inflatable-dome star ...