The visual journey unveils what the stars in the night sky truly are, using authentic images captured from Earth. With the ...

Aquarius, the "water bearer," is a large but faint constellation in the southern sky. [See our reference page about the constellation of Aquarius.] Aries, the "ram," is a mid-size constellation in ...

Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

1. Image straight from the camera. 2. Image after editing in Adobe Lightroom CC. For the Milky Way, clarity and vibrance adjustments can help bring out the gas and dust, while localized white ...

The first dazzling images have ... the night sky “like never before.” The snapshots reveal the stunning result of more than 10 hours of test observations, snapping the mysterious wonder of the cosmos.

A satellite has captured a stunning image of the vast sea of stars in the southern sky. The data was collected by NASA's planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, in its first year ...

With the naked eye under ideal conditions -- complete darkness, no light pollution, no clouds, no Moon, full-sky (both hemispheres) viewing, etc. -- there are a total of just over 9,000 stars that ...

Probably the most colorful double star in the night sky can now be found about two-thirds of the way up from the eastern horizon to the point directly overhead at 10 p.m. local daylight time ...

The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius, also known as the "Dog Star." Here's when, where and how to see it—and glimpse its rainbow of colors.

There are only about 5,000 stars visible to the naked, average, human eye, MinutePhysics points out. And, because the Earth itself gets in the way, you can only see about a half of those from ...

Stars are disappearing before our eyes at a faster rate than originally thought, with almost a third of people around the world now unable to see any at all, according to new research.