Stars shine in these heavenly images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Depictions of catlike animals are visible on stones under a rotating, starry sky. Smithsonian Photo Contest ...

Have you ever been just sitting out, enjoying the beautiful night sky, then you see a strange light moving across the sky? What else is up there besides the normal stars, planets and galaxies?

If your foreground is looking a bit dark, try light painting your subject with a flashlight, headlamp or your smartphone light during the exposure to help brighten the scene. You may need to ...

From the Beehive Cluster to planets and constellations, these are the best sights to search for over the next couple months.

Look south to see the half-lit moon and get close to one of the most beautiful sights in the night sky—the Pleiades open cluster. Also called the “Seven Sisters” and M45, the Pleiades ...

Clouds can quickly obscure a beautiful night sky. This skywatching photo was taken over a historic church in Veszprem, Hungary, and features the bright light of Venus. Clouds can quickly obscure a ...

Director Jordan Peele on cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema's unique approach to shooting the night ... daylight sky. A perfect example of what’s achieved in “Nope” is the scene where OJ ...

Sean Goebel, a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, created the new Hawaii night sky video from photographs ... Filming a typical scene took about five hours ...

In addition, the Friday night light show may include a comet in a rare and remarkable night sky extravaganza ... and then was shocked to see this beautiful, violet, glow right over my park.

"This meteor shower is just a beautiful night sky event where many shooting stars seem to come from the same area in the sky," said Dr Minjae Kim, an astronomy and astrophysics research fellow at ...