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For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...
Is James Gunn's new feature the best Man of Steel movie ever? Maybe not. But it's the Superman we could all use right now.
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...
"As I was growing up, I began to be attracted to a certain kind of man," Lucinda Williams once wrote, "and I would maintain ...
But this doesn’t really make much sense when you think about it. After all, the Moon isn’t putting off any light itself.
Astrotourism is coming to Canada, thanks to an ambitious plan for a chain of six dark-sky sites along 100 miles of the ...
The moon will be 99% full Friday night, and with mostly clear skies expected for Louisville in the evening, tonight is a good opportunity to view it.
Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...