The Kepler spacecraft has captured the "shock breakout" of a distant supernova, a twenty minute event that signals the end…
Clear night ahead? Let's see what's up. We'll start close to home with the Moon, zoom out to lonely Fomalhaut 25 light…
Astronomers at the SETI institute (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) have reported their findings after monitoring the reputed megastructure-encompassed star KIC 8462852. No…
How about that total lunar eclipse this past Sunday? Keep an eye of the waning gibbous Moon this week, as…
Tucked away in northern Ophiuchus and well-placed for observing from spring through fall is one of the most remarkable objects in the sky…
How good are your optics? Nothing can challenge the resolution of a large light bucket telescope, like attempting to split…
This week, millions of people will turn their eyes to the skies in anticipation of the 2015 Perseid meteor shower. But what happens on less…
An interesting multiple star discovery turned up in the ongoing hunt for exoplanetary systems. The discovery was announced by Marcus…
"Three quarks for Muster Mark!," wrote James Joyce in his labyrinthine fable, Finnegan's Wake. By now, you may have heard this quote -…
This article is a guest post by Anna Ho, who is currently doing research on stars in the Milky Way…