Stars shine in these heavenly images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Depictions of catlike animals are visible on stones under a rotating, starry sky. Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries ...
At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is the world’s largest digital camera. About the size of a small car, it will create an unparalleled map of the night sky. The observatory’s ...
The northern lights flashed across the skies across much of North America on Tuesday, Nov. 11, as a result of a powerful geomagnetic storm. Geomagnetic storms occur when a coronal mass ejection from ...