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....
Somewhere out past the edge of our solar system, moving farther away with every passing second, theres a spacecraft roughly the size of a small car thats been flying for almost fifty years straight. Its called Voyager 1, its the single farthest human-made object...
Between Mars and Jupiter sits a doughnut-shaped region packed with leftover rubble from the solar system's earliest days. It's the asteroid belt, and despite what science fiction loves to show, it's nowhere near as crowded, or as dangerous to fly through, as the movies...
Every so often, the night sky offers up something that genuinely doesn't happen very often, an event so rare that most people alive today have never seen anything like it and never will again. T Coronae Borealis is exactly that kind of event. Astronomers...