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See the moon, Venus and the Pleiades make a celestial triangle in the predawn sky on June 22
Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the ...
Diminishing night sky: Light pollution from cities and satellites is making stars harder to see
Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time, marked by the reappearance in the night sky of the ...
Matariki and our diminishing night sky: Light pollution makes stars harder to see
Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time this week, but more needs to be done to promote and ...
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Matariki and the dark sky reserves in Aotearoa
The connection between Matariki and Dark Sky Reserves is natural and profound. For Māori, the stars are tūpuna (ancestors), ...
A Traveler Waits in the Stars for Those Willing to Learn How to Look
A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...
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See the moon rise alongside the giant planets Neptune and Saturn predawn on June 19
The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...
World's largest telescope unveils first images of distant galaxies in stunning detail: "Cosmic treasure chest"
The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...
Stargazing flight: How Bogong moths use the night sky to navigate hundreds of kilometers
In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia's iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the ...
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See the moon, Venus and the Pleiades make a celestial triangle in the predawn sky on June 22
The Pleiades will be the last of the three bodies ... Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment ...