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There are two ways to use a star map. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose, for example, we spot a fairly bright star halfway from the southeastern horizon to the zenith (the map’s center ...
A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...
Crytek has released version 2.4 for Hunt Showdown 1896 which is cersion 1.000.027. Check out the full list of new content ...
The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...
I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited ...
Look east before sunrise on Sunday to catch a stunning trio: a crescent moon flanked by bright Venus and the Pleiades star ...
Aurora chaser and photographer Harlan Thomas ( @TheAuroraGuy) was about 18.5 miles (30 kilometers) north of Calgary along a ...
It’s one of the most famous stars in the night sky. If you grew up with stories about navigation, camping, […] ...
At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a digital camera that will create an unparalleled map of the cosmos.
It's an impressive feat for Bogong moths, whose brains are smaller than the size of a grain of rice, to rely on the night sky ...
While Monday will be quite pleasant with seasonable temperatures and Delta breezes, much warmer temperatures are forecast for ...
The nova, now officially named V462 Lupi, was first detected on 12 June by astronomers from Ohio State University's All-Sky ...