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Even though humans have been looking at the night sky for millenia, not everyone sees the same sky. Not even the ...
Cassiopeia the Queen swings in a wide circle around the North Celestial Pole, visible much of (if not all of) the night for ...
There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...
V462 Lupi is in the constellation of the Lupus (the wolf), a southern sky constellation which is visible across the whole ...
There are two ways to use a star map. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose, for example, we spot a fairly bright star halfway from the southeastern horizon to the zenith (the map’s center ...
A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...
As the revolving seasons rise Above the tree-tops star by star. The flowers of the sky like the flowers ... has divided the eighty-eight constellations in the northern and southern skies.
This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...