Astronomy
The Milky Way from Earth
[/caption] If you look up into the night sky on a very clear night, in an area with very little…
Jupiter Retrograde
[/caption] Jupiter is one of the 5 planets visible with the unaided eye, and so it has been known for…
Taurus
[/caption] The ancient zodiacal constellation of Taurus was one of Ptolemy's original 48 constellations and remains today as part of…
Sextans
[/caption] Located just south of the ecliptic plane, the small, dim constellation of Sextans was originally introduced in the 17th…
Study Solves Mystery of How Massive Stars Form
[/caption] For a long time, scientists have understood that stars form when interstellar matter inside giant clouds of molecular hydrogen…
Will We Look Like This in 5 Billion Years?
[/caption] In another amazingly gorgeous image, Hubble has captured a unique planetary nebula nested inside an open star cluster. Both…
Fine Young Big Blue Cannibal Stars
[/caption] Stars known as "blue stragglers" have stumped astronomers for years. Blue stragglers are found in open or globular clusters,…
Serpens Cauda
[/caption] The constellation of Serpens is unique - being the only one to be divided into two parts. Serpens Cauda…
Serpens Caput
[/caption] The constellation of Serpens is unique - being the only one to be divided into two parts. Serpens Caput…
Scutum
[/caption] The small constellation of Scutum was originally created by Johannes Hevelius in 1683 and was later adopted as a…