April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Bode's Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of +6.94, making it one of the brightest galaxies visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

The fascination with figuring out the part that the Milky Way may have played in the culture and religion of ancient Egypt ...

Telescopes provide closeup views of Jupiter and its four largest moons discovered by Galileo, and of Mars. Although Mars is ...

13, 2025 — The night sky ... at Galaxy's Center Sep. 6, 2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way ...

On the first night GV ... like our Milky Way. They were rather common in our nearby sky, but the origin of their lopsided appearance was not well understood. Later, in the early 1990s, I left the de ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like ... such as the Atacama Desert in Chile. Even so, a 2022 study from the Royal Astronomical ...