How much color should I be able to see in sky objects through a 10-inch telescope? Dennis Holt Concordia, Kansas. Unfortunately, when you look at distant galaxies and nebulae, you won’t see much ...

This is the perfect night for deep-sky astrophotographers to image one of the most beautiful objects in the summer night sky. M13 is the prime example of a globular cluster, a dense ball of ...

So far as I have been able to learn, little or nothing is known about the colour of the night sky. The light is too faint for ordinary visual discrimination of colour, which disappears with ...

How to see the lunar eclipse. The so-called blood moon will be visible for about an hour starting at 2:26 a.m. Eastern on Friday morning. Peak viewing will be close to 3 a.m. Eastern.

The Night Sky This Week: May 12-18, 2025. The moon takes center stage this week as it reaches its full phase, then wanes. After the vibrant “flower moon” rising in the southeast on Monday and ...