One of the most fascinating and beautiful deep space objects an astrophotographer can image is a nebula. The word nebula means cloud or fog. The reality is that it is a distinct body of interstellar ...

The blue color of the daytime sky results from Rayleigh scattering, where atmospheric atoms and molecules preferentially scatter the blue wavelengths of sunlight more than red, rather than being the ...

Autumn has draped itself across the northern hemisphere, heralding the onset of longer, darker nights that serve as the perfect backdrop for amateur astronomers looking to explore the wonders of the ...

On May 10, 2024, something unusual happened. Babak Tafreshi packed up his camera equipment and drove just an hour north of his home in Massachusetts to photograph the northern lights. For the first ...

As the glow of artificial light has spread across the world, the number of places dark enough to see a sky rich with stars has shrunk. In North America and across Oregon, only a small percentage of ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy ...