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The Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids will peak together on the night of Tuesday, July 29, into the early hours ...
"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...
Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...
The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
First on the calendar is the Thunder Moon, otherwise known as the Buck Moon, which will light up the night on July 10, ...
Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...
Two meteor showers will peak at the same time in July with the cosmic glow of our galaxy serving as the backdrop. Here's how to see the month's top astronomical sights.
A "blood moon" rose over the UK during a partial lunar eclipse on March 14. The eclipse became visible for many across the world as the Moon travelled through the Earth's shadow. This type of eclipse ...
An international team of scientists has demonstrated that the Australian Bogong moth uses star constellations and the Milky Way to navigate during its annual migration over hundreds of kilometers ...
Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth, ...
The plane of the Milky Way is offset from the plane of our solar system by about 60 degrees, giving us a side-on view of the inner edge of our spiral arm from where we sit.