I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

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 ...

Amateur astronomers and beginners will find the Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope useful for capturing shots of the night sky with the ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

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

Programs include a session on fruit tree pruning, a salamander meet and greet and children's programming focused on bugs.

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of stellar nursery 30 Doradus, nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-infrared Instrument (MIRI) ...

Shares of Orion Group climbed on pace for the largest percent increase since March 2020 after the company said that it received awards of $211.7 million. The stock was up 18% to $9.46 on Monday.

NGC 3324: Open cluster in southern constellation Carina, located northwest of the Carina Nebula at a distance of 9,100 ly from Earth. Triangulum Galaxy: It is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light ...