WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.
When Ukrainian forces retook the site of the Braude Radio Astronomy Observatory in September 2022 after forcing a Russian ...
Russia’s war has left many of Ukraine’s world-class observatories in ruins—but the besieged nation’s astronomers already have ...
Over 3.3 billion people across the Americas, Asia and Oceania will get a glimpse of the climactic blood moon phase, as the lunar disk — fully immersed in Earth's inner shadow i ...
A total lunar eclipse kicks off March. Jupiter is well placed most of the night, while Venus shines brilliantly and Uranus is ...
The planets are aligning. This Saturday is a rare chance to see several of our closest cosmic neighbors in a single sky. Six planets will assemble themselves for a spectacular “planetary parade” that ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.