The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky ...

For decades, astronomers believed Andromeda and the Milky Way were destined to merge in about 4 billion years. But new ...

This annual showcase highlights some of the world's best space photography, with winners, runners-up, and highly commended images selected across ten categories. This year's overall winning image, ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

There is so much going on this month for stargazers, including lunar conjunctions and cover-ups. One of the great meteor ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925, attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of all time. It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...

This month brings chances to see the first of the three supermoons of this year, two meteor showers and the opportunity to ...

This time of year, you have the best chance to see the farthest thing away that you can see with the unaided human eye in our Rochester night sky. Away from heavy city lighting, look in the ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

There’s so much going on this month for stargazers, including great lunar conjunctions and cover-ups. One of the great meteor showers also puts on a show. October is a transitional month, both in ...