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Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...
Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, and Venus.
July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.
July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.” ...
Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...
Using the Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have performed radio observations of a galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed ...
Mercury begins a rapid plunge toward the setting sun. By early July, Mercury is lost in the glare of the sunset. By late July, Mars begins to sink into the ...
A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black ...
Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.23402 Using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), European astronomers have investigated a galaxy cluster designated CIZA J2242.8+5301, dubbed the Sausage cluster.
Buachaille Etive Mòr rises beneath the Beehive Cluster, an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer. With over a thousand stars packed together, it’s one of the brightest clusters visible ...