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AR 4079, the biggest sunspot of 2025, has appeared on the sun. Here's what it looks like — and how to safely see it with your ...
In advance of a star called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) or the “Blaze Star” exploding in a very rare event, NASA is advising ...
Tāhuna Glenorchy, nestled in the heart of New Zealand’s South Island, has been declared an International Dark Sky Sanctuary.
Rob Datsko (left) and Win Pendleton love studying the stars so much that they started the Astronomy Club of Wind Crest in January 2024. It’s so popular that membership has gone from 24 people to more ...
On April 27, the moon blocked 23 percent of the sun in a partial eclipse, but it was not possible to see this from Earth.
which may have shaded the sky just enough to allow the corona to be visible up to 20 seconds after the appearance of the "car headlights" at the moment of sunrise. The timing of this eclipse coincided ...
After months without a meteor shower, sky-gazers now ... moon” for a lunar eclipse, according to NASA. That shadow isn’t ...
The Lyrid meteor shower — "considered one of the oldest and most reliable celestial shows of the year" — will overlap the Eta ...
Fred “Mr. Eclipse” Espenak announced yesterday ... scientific study and public appreciation of solar eclipses. Espenak's love of the night sky began, like most astronomers, with a small ...
All eyes were drawn to the sky for three minutes ... It would have been much colder for the eclipse had it happened this year. Don’t forget, our next total solar eclipse locally won’t come ...