Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Coordinator for the Astronomy and Dark Sky Initiative for the Lake Fork Valley Conservancy Phillip Virden looks down the valley at the San Juan Mountains with his binoculars at Windy Point on ...

Comets are among the most exciting subjects to photograph in the night sky. Our handy guide will help you find them and capture the best images. Comets are one of the most exciting subjects for people ...

Amazon Prime Day in October is in its final day and this telescope deal on the Celestron Inspire 100AZ brings the price down to $304 — perfect for a better view of comet Lemmon.

A majestic celestial event looms large for the continental U.S. and greater Americas. "Enjoy it. See it with your own eyes," Emily Rice, an astronomer at Macaulay Honors College of the City University ...

As the year moves on, we are starting to see the return of the morning planets slowly become the evening planets. I am referring to the recent opposition of Saturn on Aug. 14 and the return of giant ...

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best astronomical events that stargazers have the pleasure of viewing yearly during the summer. Although the 2022 Perseid meteor shower peaked a few weeks ago, ...

image: This set of magnified, cropped images shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (highlighted in red) as it approaches Earth for its Sept. 22 Earth Gravity Assist. To improve visibility, the images ...

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Dedication ceremony in Tucson, Ariz. will unveil the world’s most powerful ground-based telescope to an international audience The LBT Corporation announced today that the dedication ceremonies for ...