The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern ... rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... stupendous galaxy. For me the revelation came the first time ...

Instead, we see it as an arc of light across the night sky. It's one of the most beautiful sights in nature, but it requires a dark sky and dark-adapting your eyes for about 10-20 minutes. Galaxy ...

Anyone can capture the majesty of the galaxy with a simple camera ... will start to show star trails and capture their movement as they travel across the night sky, so experiment with timings.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. There are likely many more ... the chances of life existing elsewhere in the galaxy, say the authors. “It was estimated ...

Ahoy, from the good ship Azamara Onward headed south in the Pacific Ocean for French Polynesia. Wednesday night the “Parade of Planets” was in full and spectacular view. In the southwest sky ...

This month the Sky at Night is focusing all its attention on one object M51 aka The Whirlpool Galaxy. Sitting approximately 30 million light years from Earth, this spectacular spiral galaxy was ...