Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...

The large, extinct creatures roamed the Twin Cities area more than 10,000 years ago and could grow to more than 200 pounds ...

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Caldwell 1, also known as NGC 188, is a group of stars formed from a large cloud of gas. Thus, they are roughly the same age.

Many moonless evenings the next two weeks are a great time for viewing the best of the summer stars. You may also see the remarkable occurrence of two exploding stars ...

Explore the warped spiral galaxy NGC 3718 and its neighbor NGC 3729 — a dynamic duo of deep-sky oddities in the constellation Ursa Major.

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