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 ...

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.

The bright star Mu Cephei glows at 4 th magnitude, is slightly variable, and is known as Herschel’s Garnet Star due to its deep ruddy color. It is one of the largest stars known, 1,000 times ...

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 ...

One of the extreme northern sky’s most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat’s Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness.