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Summer’s brightest stars appear, echoing these Earth-bound lights, beginning around 9:20 p.m. through mid-month.
Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...
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.
Having a good phone app is a lot of fun and quite helpful in verifying stars, asterisms, and constellations. Most apps will ...
July stargazing is certainly a late show, but it is worth losing some sleep over because it is now prime time for summer ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For stargazers in the United States, the bright star Vega will become visible over the northeast horizon between 9 and 10pm, and will climb higher in the sky until the meteors radiating from it ...
July stargazing is certainly a late show, but it's worth losing some sleep over because it’s prime time for summer ...