Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

it’s no surprise Scotland is a frequent stop for stargazers — there are often vivid skyscapes showcasing clear views of the Milky Way and its constellations, such as Orion’s Belt and ...

Ladakh is located within the Himalayas and the Karakoram Range. Its rugged terrain, with high-altitude deserts and sparse ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

As the engineer-in-charge at the observatory, Angchuk aspires to create a full 24-hour time-lapse seamlessly depicting the ...

Over four gruelling nights, he faced numerous setbacks, including storage issues, battery failures, and timer malfunctions.

Clear, crisp nights have recently afforded us a fabulous view of the night sky. Interest in astronomy has increased in the last year with planet parades, northern lights, eclipses and comets. Thank yo ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The idea for the time-lapse originated from a request to create an educational tool that would help students understand Earth's movement.

The bright glow of the globular cluster NGC 2031 shines in the Mensa constellation within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. In the Trapezium embedded cluster ...

Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd ... could be enormous stellar systems outside the Milky Way – but astronomers now just call these systems ...