From nebulas and galaxies to star clusters, the sun and the moon, here’s what to image in the night sky using a smart ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. It’s one of the most common words used by astronomers—and ...

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 ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925, attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of all time. It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, ...

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 ...

One of the more interesting features of the late summer and early autumn Colorado sky is the faint band of light that now stretches from Sagittarius in the southwest to Perseus in the northeast and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

One of astronomy’s deepest mysteries is the “radio star,” an object in space that “shines” with radio waves instead of with .visible light. The first radio stars were discovered only about two years ...

Soon after sunset, as the sky gets dark, look toward the south and youll immediately notice the brilliant planet Jupiter, but there's another night sky target that also promises a great experience: ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

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 ...