No matter your observing experience or equipment, January 2026 provides many impressive astronomy events to kick off the new ...
An unusual member of the ensemble is Scorpius the Scorpion, which stung Orion to death and was placed in the sky such that ...
The last quarter moon is on January 10, and new moon is on January 18. The waxing crescent moon is just above Saturn on ...
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Michael's miscellany: Observe the Blue Snowball
If you have access to an 8-inch or larger telescope, look in the northern part of the constellation Andromeda the Princessfor ...
It used to be said that you could test your eyesight by counting the number of stars visible to the unaided eye. The best nights to try this are around January 19 when the Moon is new ...
NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year ...
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Astronauts snap rare glimpse of galaxy bursting with stars just outside the Milky Way
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest companions, continues to astonish astronomers with its ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy 160,000 light-years away, is one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbours.
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