The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see ...

Sol 100mm Dedicated Solar Telescope DayStar FiltersWarrensburg, Missouri DayStar's Sol 100 Hydrogen-alpha telescope is a 4-inch instrument that allows safe viewing of normally invisible solar features ...

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

The name of the eatery suggests it might be located on one of Jupiter's moons, or the other side of the Milky Way, but it is very get-to-able, in terms of earthlings wanting to reach it: The seasonal ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

The Shiras Planetarium will welcome Dr. Joel Weisberg to Marquette this April as part of the American Astronomical Society’s ...

Warmer weather has people spending more time outdoors, and those heading out after dark will have plenty to look for in the night sky, including the first meteor shower in over three months. The full ...

Why doesn't Astronomy magazine recognize Messier 110? Keith LankfordHarvest, Alabama Amateur astronomers dubbed this object ...

An icon of New Mexico, the Very Large Array (VLA)  is due for an upgrade. Now years in the making, work on the next-generation antenna is getting ready to roll ...

On the first night out with my brand-new Celestron NexStar 8SE back in July 2015, I knew little about the relative sizes of astronomical objects. I was bowled over by my first view of Saturn — an ...

One day, while I was looking at the credits for an attractive image on AstroBin, I noticed the camera listed was “Player One.” I wondered who that company was. As time went by, I saw similar credits ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...