You know, after decades of pointing optics toward the sky, I consider myself a knowledgeable observer. But while researching the Pleiades a few months back, I was surprised to learn that it wasn't the ...

Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs traveling ...

Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs traveling ...

Maffei 1 and 2 are two galaxies relatively close to our Milky Way. These galaxies were discovered in 1967 due to their infrared light. They belong to the IC 342/Maffei Group, a galaxy group near our ...

The sky is filled with thousands of amazing objects for you to explore with binoculars or a small telescope. I’ll be highlighting an interesting object or group of objects in this new daily series, ...

Shannon Silverman, an Astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode four she shows us some Deep Sky Objects. Almost ...

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the ...

10 supernova explosions have been seen brightening the Fireworks Galaxy over the past century. Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining ...

McKinley Museum planetarium director Suzie Dills says her trip to the Galileo museum in Italy was educational, and a thrill.

Shannon Silverman, an Astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode seven she shows us some Summer Deep Sky Objects.