Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

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It’s the brightest star in the night sky by far, shining at a magnitude 1.4. That puts it behind only our Moon, Jupiter and Venus in terms of brightness. What even fewer people know is that ...

Jupiter is glorious in the west after sunset, outshining all the stars. The crescent Moon lies near the giant planet on 30 April. The night sky at around 11pm this month (Nigel Henbest ...

If you’re a night ... winter stars still with us after dusk are Castor and Pollux, in the constellation Gemini the Twins. You can see them side by side in the low west-northwestern sky.

The night sky at around 11pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Mars is gradually fading as the faster-moving Earth pull away from the Red Planet, and it’s now fainter than some of the stars in the ...

The objects you see in the night sky without a telescope are only the brightest objects from our perspective. These are the planets, when they are in the right positions relative to us, and stars ...

Here’s how it works. A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it ...