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A charming Arizona town in the west was designated as the world's first International Dark Sky City, meaning it offers beautiful views of the Milky Way.

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Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Looking up into the dark Wyoming night sky, all the stars in the Milky Way were shining so brightly it looked like white paint had been splashed across the sky from horizon to horizon. I blinked ...

Mark Ozboyd is obsessed with waterfalls. On a dark, new moon night in late August of 2023, the intrepid 23-year-old and a ...

Explore the breathtaking beauty of the Milky Way through stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, revealing ...

A local photographer captured images of the Northern Lights over Ludham and Winterton in Norfolk this weekend.

For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the Milky Way was the entire universe. As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes, they were intrigued by fuzzy patches of light ...

Join me as I pick the best lenses for astrophotography fans shooting a starry night sky, to suit a range of cameras and budgets. I think that the best lenses for astrophotography are vital for getting ...