Described as a "celestial beauty in the Australian outback" that's ... All the stars we see in the night sky are in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way because it appears ...
The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet ...
Many of us have experienced it: camping in the Outback at night, no streetlights, no houselights, no skyglow of the city, ...
It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...
For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night ... sky. In 1924, Mount Stromlo Observatory, located outside Canberra, took over observing the Milky Way.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...