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If city lights block the stars over your backyard, this map can help you hunt down the darkest skies for epic stargazing.
Pop the popcorn! It's time to snuggle up on the couch for family movie night with the best cartoon movies of all time. Family ...
Sabrina Carpenter, SZA, Ariana Grande and Jack Black won multiple awards at the 2025 Kids’ Choice Awards on June 21. Here's the full winners list.
The first state park in Kansas or Missouri to earn recognition from Dark Sky International is fixing lights that cause unnecessary glare and skyglow. Similar work is taking place at Truman State ...
Now, these mods aren’t huge additions to Baldur’s Gate 3, but they do add a much different vibe to Larian’s RPG than the bright daytime we’re all used to. It would be nice to see even more ...
We were incredibly lucky that night in 1984, when I was seven, because a satellite came into view. With no clouds and few lights, it moved steadily like a bright little star across the dark, dark sky.
A SpaceX rocket launch from Florida on Monday afternoon produced a dazzling display in the night sky above Europe, leading to some people asking Elon Musk what they were witnessing. The rocket ...
Let's start by putting some shape on the sky. On a clear night we see about 2000 stars, organised through the ages into mythical character-based patterns called constellations, of which there are 88.
A decently dark site in a rural area has a sky background of about 21 mag/arcsec 2. In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado I’ve been to sites a bit darker than this, and it’s truly spectacular.
The Blue Hill Peninsula Night Sky Festival takes place Sunday, Sept. 29, through Saturday, Oct. 5. Sponsors include Dark Sky Maine, Blue Hill Public Library, Patagonia, Pugnuts and Blue Hill ...
While tonight's blue supermoon is rare, September's coincides with a partial lunar eclipse - another sight worth watching out for. If you spot the supermoon tonight, you can share your story ...