Here’s how it works. A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it ...

A startling analysis from Globe at Night — a citizen science program run by NSF’s NOIRLab — concludes that stars ... background Over a large part of the Earth’s land surface, the sky ...

The iconic star Betelgeuse, which is part of the constellation Orion, is one of the brightest stars visible from Earth and one of the most observed celestial objects in the night sky — but it ...

BlueWalker 3 is about as bright as the eighth brightest star ... the sky background glow, which then makes it much harder to see nebulas, dust clouds, and finer details in the night sky.