A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting mysterious, extremely bright red dots scattered across the early universe, objects too luminous to...
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About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun. That's the kind of number that sounds made up until you sit with it for a second. Our entire planet, all seven continents, every ocean, every mountain, times more than a million, and...
Nobody had ever seen a black hole. Not because telescopes weren't powerful enough in the ordinary sense, but because the object researchers wanted to...
Almost everyone has looked up at some point and wondered why the Moon keeps changing shape. One night it's a fat glowing circle. A week later it's a thin silver curve that looks like it was drawn with a single brushstroke. Then it disappears...
Seeing the northern lights in person is one of those experiences that reorganizes your sense of what the sky can do. Photos are beautiful, but they don't prepare you for the moment curtains of green and pink actually start rippling and dancing overhead, silent...