Week of June 15-28, 2025 I've been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited the Southern ...

By checking star atlases or imaging this area with a wide field, you may see that NGC 7008 lies between two dark nebulae, Barnard 357 and LDN 1029. The post Deep-Sky Dreams: NGC 7008 appeared ...

This New Map of Nearby Stars May Solve a Cosmic Mystery. ... Also, some brighter brown dwarfs may still be hiding in crowded parts of the sky, such as the star-rich disk of the galaxy.

Explore the UGC 10214, the Tadpole Galaxy, a faint, peculiar spiral galaxy in Draco with a dramatic tidal tail and active star formation — an elusive but rewarding target for deep-sky observers ...

The world is overflowing with crazily-named deep-sky objects. However, I am guilty of one such naming, many years ago, in Astronomy and Deep Sky magazines — the Owl Cluster, NGC 457, in Cassiopeia.