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When millions of people turn off their lights for Earth Hour each year, something remarkable happens in the night sky above ...
Nearby will be the Bull's brightest star, orange Aldebaran, fairly conspicuous in its own right, yet still shining only a ...
In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...
Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...
Here are a few tips and tricks photographer Harrison Jones has learned from more than a decade of photographing fireworks.
The Royal Observatory of Greenwich released a shortlist of the top submissions for the 2023 Astronomy Photo of the Year.
Night sky photographer and explorer Babak Tafreshi stargazing on a lake in the Sierras with the Milky Way in the background.
Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the universe in unprecedented detail, from violent cosmic collisions to faraway ...
July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...
On Tuesday night, the Sturgeon Moon was visible from Greece to Brazil. Two more supermoons are expected this year: one in late August and the other in September.
Stars shine in these heavenly images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Depictions of catlike animals are visible on stones under a rotating, starry sky. Smithsonian Photo Contest ...
As companies like SpaceX continue to rush satellites to orbit, the streaks they create in astronomical images are becoming problematic.