Night sky lovers have been getting all kinds of treats in the last month: A Perseid meteor shower that’s included fireballs, and a rare “Black Moon” that gave us a really dark sky - all the better to ...

Over the years I’ve enjoyed hearing from readers who excitedly describe seeing something they never knew about or had never been able to see before. I find this quite rewarding since some of the ...

To the eye the zodiacal light looks like an enormous, wedge-shaped pillar of diffuse light slanting upward from the eastern horizon and extending halfway up the sky. The faint "finger" of the zodiacal ...

There's an eerie light in the sky, and if you've recently been in a dark area just after dusk or before dawn, you may have already seen it. It's most visible in spring and fall and now is one of the ...

A newly released image shows a colorful haze glowing above the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert at sunset. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) stands ...

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THAT’S WHAT I LIKE TO THINK. NO, IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT TO WATCH THEM REALLY. THE MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY IS SHARING A REALLY RARE AND SUPER COOL SIGHT IN THE SKY. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. IT IS ...

Here’s some light reading. A stunning zodiacal light was spotted in the sky early Wednesday from Mount Washington in New Hampshire, according to the Mount Washington Observatory. “The zodiacal light ...