Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

NGC 1786’s mixed-age stars suggest globular clusters aren’t one-generation wonders, offering fresh clues to galaxy formation far beyond the Milky Way.

As more of the world lives under light-polluted skies, astrophotographers are a connection to the cosmos. With their high-tech telescopes, cameras and image editing software, they can magnify what ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the brightest northerly star. It ...

Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.

A team of astronomers has uncovered an extraordinary cosmic mystery, a giant planet that seems to be hurtling toward a fiery ...

At the moment, Capella is the only part of Auriga visible in the early evening sky. By early August, however, the entire constellation will be visible in the pre-dawn northeastern sky.

Minnesota Starwatch for April In the early part of the month, look to the west at nightfall for the constellation Auriga, the charioteer, a polygon of stars set off by brilliant Capella.

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

THE appearances which the new star has presented were exceedingly remarkable, and observations, both spectroscopic and photometric, were far more numerous than have been obtained during former ...