A guide to finding Lynx and its hidden galaxies between Ursa Major and Auriga.

If you look eastward at the same hour for two nights in a row, you’ll find that the stars seem to be in the same place. But they're not, and this movement becomes apparent if you continue observing at ...

Dive into the mesmerizing world of constellations with our latest video! Dive into the mesmerizing world of constellations with our latest video! Since prehistoric times, people have used ...

The term “constellation” evokes several denotations. The most familiar is “a grouping of naked-eye stars sometimes connected by imaginary lines or superimposed by illustrations to suggest images, ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...

Have you ever noticed a constellation while driving at night and wondered what it was? Or looked up after dark and wondered what you were looking at? The night sky appears is constantly changing, ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, ...

If you go to a very dark site on a moonless night—and I cannot recommend it highly enough that you do so—you’ll be faced with an awesome sight: a night sky seemingly brimming with millions of stars, ...