Vincent van Gogh's ‘The Starry Night’ is one of the most famous paintings by the artist, and of the night sky. He painted it in 1889 while he was staying in a mental hospital in France.

It’s one of the most incredible naked eye sites in the night sky—and it’s now been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Orion Nebula—also known as M42—is a stellar ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

What To See In The Night Sky This Week: March 27-April 2, 2023 So long, Jupiter, see you again soon. The solar system’s largest planet this week takes a bow and departs the post-sunset night sky ...

Depictions of catlike animals are visible on stones under a rotating, starry sky. Mehdi Akbari, Iran, 2023. Light pollution may make it difficult to appreciate the night sky, but away from the ...

Between February 25 and February 28, all seven planets in our solar system will be visible in the night sky. It's known as a planetary parade. You'll need a telescope for some of them, but you ...

D eep-sky astrophotographers are in for a treat this month, with some of the most beautiful nebulae — and a globular cluster — at their best, though with the solstice on 20 June, astronomical ...

As astronomer Greg Aldering put it: "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes Void, we wouldn’t have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s.”. So when you look up at the ...

Through their superposition compound eyes, a beetle’s view of the night sky is certainly no detailed star chart. But the pattern they do see contains all the information they need.