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Sacramento State’s planetarium coordinator Kyle Watters shares how he developed a passion for astronomy and what audiences can expect during the upcoming planetarium shows on Oct. 24-26.

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

The best star projector for kids, the Govee Star Light projector, is now 28% off. So why wait for Black Friday 2025?

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and observe the ...

Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic ... of the week Astronomy Soar through 44 million stars in Gaia telescope's latest 3D map of our galaxy — Space photo of the week Astronomy ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has launched Sensory-Friendly Sundays, a free monthly event for neurodiverse children and ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...

Historically, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was a subject of extensive debate, initially considered a "nebulous smear" and later central to the "island universe" hypothesis proposing its status as an ...

Charles Messier first cataloged M51 on October 13, 1773, describing it as a "very faint nebula without any stars" and making it the 51st entry in his catalog. In 1781, Pierre Mechain observed M51 to ...

The contrail was spotted in the spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located roughly 31 million light-years from our solar system in the constellation Leo. Although contrails have been previously identified in the ...