Related: What you can see tonight in the night sky [maps] There are several reasons why some stars look brighter than others. Perhaps the most obvious is that they're all located at different ...

To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery ... the light is bent in different ways, making the star appear to twinkle.

Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth. The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star ...

Credit: ESA/DPAC/Airbus DS Under ideal night sky conditions, stars appear as point sources ... all having measurable sizes, experience different impacts. Their images dance, distort and discolor ...

Vega moves in a different plane than the planets in ... like our own sun—and it’s the brightest yellow star in the night sky. Though it appears as a single point of light to the naked eye ...

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it in the night sky.

That’s why we see a specific set of constellations, such as Cygnus the Swan and the Teapot, in the evening sky. Now, as we transition from summer to fall, our Earth keeps spinning. We begin to see the ...

One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse. The event should be visible to millions of ...

For us in northern climes, this only adds more luster to that part of the sky containing the beautiful wintertime constellations.” Compare all of this to the spectacular star-spangled skies of ...

The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over and over again ... and even trading whole stars with each other—as well as how stars form.