A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

Friday, March 14: Just before dawn check out bright star Vega above the eastern horizon. It’s the fifth-brightest star in our sky right now, even though it’s 25 light years away from Earth.

Stargazing in July hopefully promises warm nights in Wyoming. The highlight of July evenings is the prominent band of the Milky Way arcing across the dark skies. Along the Milky Way, you’ll spot the ...

It wasn’t until 1983 that the Infrared Astronomical Satellite detected a dusty disk around the bright star Vega, producing the first evidence of a planetary system in formation.. Since that time ...

Having a good phone app is a lot of fun and quite helpful in verifying stars, asterisms, and constellations. Most apps will ...

Star Gazers #14-45 5M Nov 10-16, 2014 "Finding The North Star Without The Big Dipper" Star Gazers | "Capella And Vega: Bright Stars In The North-ish Sky" 5 Min | PBS Skip to Main Content ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And ...

The nearby star Vega holds a special place in human culture. Located just 25 light-years away, this shining beacon—about twice the mass of the sun and 40 times as bright—is so prominent in ...

Vega was the North Star around 12,000 B.C.E., and in time, it will hold that title once again. ... The bright star sits higher than Sirius in the sky. Betelgeuse In an illustration, ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.