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Summer’s brightest stars appear, echoing these Earth-bound lights, beginning around 9:20 p.m. through mid-month.
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Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...
Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...
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Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
These stellar Nintendo video games provide a strong focus on exploration, rewarding curiosity and discovery at every turn.
The two stars of this system are separated by 11”, shining at magnitudes 3.4 and 7.5. Their color contrast is quite noticeable to most observers, and is why the pair is particularly famous.
Mercury passes 5° south of Pollux in Gemini at 4 P.M. EDT and now lies to the lower left of this magnitude 1.2 star in the western sky after sunset. The planet shines at magnitude –0.1 tonight.
A New Star is Born – Briefly The nova, now officially named V462 Lupi, was first detected on 12 June by astronomers from Ohio State University's All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae.