Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black hole. The supergiant star M31 ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A new study claims ... home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy, but the distance between ...
Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...
Anyone can capture the majesty of the galaxy with a simple camera ... An exposure longer than about 25 seconds will start to show star trails and capture their movement as they travel across the night ...
Cassiopeia’s stars present the constellation as a giant ‘M’ or ‘W’. When looking for the galaxy, look for the ‘W’ in the northern part of the sky, and use the bottom right hand star, Schedar, as a ...
The night sky is a wonderful thing to get lost in, and it’s a terrible thing to lose. Here's everything you need to know ...
Nearby will be orangey Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation ... and is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky. M82 (the Cigar galaxy) is a starburst galaxy also about 12 ...