When looking up at the sky at night, it’s easy to get the impression that the stars go on forever in fairly uniform fashion. We know, of course, that this isn’t the case. Stars coalesce into galaxies, ...
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Space is famous for being unimaginably vast. Yet even among its endless distances, there are places that make the rest of the ...
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Astronomers looked above the Milky Way - and found a region where thousands of galaxies are missing
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years wide but only around 1,000 light-years thick, making it incredibly flat on cosmic ...
In the northern night sky, you can sometimes find a foreleg-shaped cluster of stars known as the Boötes (Greek word for "herdsman") constellation. In its vicinity, there is an enormous dark space that ...
Stare into the night sky and you can’t help being amazed by the sheer scale of the universe. Look for Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. That’s 8.6 light years away. Polaris, the North Star, sits ...
Most of us would consider Bootes the Bear Guard a spring constellation. That's when it first appears in the eastern sky, following the tail of Ursa Major the Great Bear as the snow drifts recede. Come ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
June’s night skies provide excellent opportunities to discover a slice of the evening sky that is largely unsung, unheralded and usually ignored. Daniel Zantzinger / Skywatcher's Guide When, for ...
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