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 ...

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 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) ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best “must-see” attractions in the Shamokin sky, and it’s even more impressive once you get to ...

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 ...

Last night, the Philadelphia Eagles overwhelmingly ... located in the Eagle Nebula. This image was captured in 1995 by the the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are each a staggering 4-5 light ...