Also on October evenings, standing high in the east-southeast is the most distinctive landmark of autumn nights: the Great ...

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Astronomers are waiting for T Coronae Borealis, a nova 3,000 light-years away, to explode for the first time in almost 80 ...

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Venus shines bright after sunset, the giant planets rise before midnight, and Mars shines before dawn. Plus, catch Comet ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. Detecting these molecules could tell ...

Using a magnifying glass to count the number of ray flowers, I saw many bees, tiny ones, large bumblebees and bright green ...

On October 2, the "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse will occur, visible over locations like Hawaii, Chile, and Argentina.

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In a rare cosmic event that has both astronomers and stargazers excited, a star 3,000 light-years away is expected to erupt ...

As well as visible light, there are other kinds of light, such as X-rays ... entire night sky. You can see the band of the Milky Way running all the way across. There’s a bright patch at ...

On Earth, this appears as a pyramid-shaped wedge of light in the predawn sky, caused by a cloud of dust particles that ... the Sun and the luminous inner disk of the Milky Way as well as bright nearby ...