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India’s Kutch region offers a combination of unique landscapes and dark skies.
The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 ...
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...
When the stars align, about eight months out of the year, the Milky Way and its 100 billion stars can be seen in some form.
For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...
Many never witness this wonder. About one-third of people, including 80% of Americans, can’t see the Milky Way at all. The ...
The Milky Way Galaxy's magnetic turbulence stands revealed in an innovative new computer model describing the expanse between ...
Scientists have discovered something incredible—the "ancient heart" of the Milky Way! It’s a group of about 18,000 stars that are some of the oldest in our galaxy, dating back more than 12 billion ...
The Milky Way is making its first major appearance of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s set to be visible across ...
The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...
Explore the wonders of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky with our guide to the best celestial sights you can observe with ...
The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a small galaxy, a loose aggregation of stars, and a satellite of the Milky Way. Its gravitational ...