The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

The Celestron NexStar ... blue-white) star, marking Orion's left foot. Above the Belt and to the left is Orion's right shoulder, the bright and ruddy Betelgeuse. If one looks to the left ...

The first direct image of a star other than our sun, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. ... [+] Betelgeuse is an enormous star in the constellation Orion. This ultraviolet image shows a bright ...

The story describes Betelgeuse as “the red giant that marks Orion’s left shoulder.” Reader Chris Jespersen wrote: “I often see Betelgeuse on Orion’s right shoulder…. Am I mistaken?” ...

“But actually, those blobs consist of many, many individual stars. We just can’t resolve them with our telescopes.” In this case, though, multiple layers of gravitational lensing from Abell ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings. The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare "blue lurker" star that has ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured highly detailed ... The light echoes, originating from a star's collapse over 350 years ago, have travelled across vast distances to illuminate ...

when the Hubble Space Telescope spotted the universe's oldest known planet, which formed earlier in the universe's history than scientists thought was possible. Stars form in large clouds of gas ...

"Even as a star dies, its light endures—echoing across the cosmos. It’s been an extraordinary three years since we launched NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Every image, every discovery ...