How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

After Welsh amateur astronomer Isaac Roberts retired from his career in engineering and manufacturing, he devoted his life to ...

An incredible picture of the Andromeda Galaxy has captured viral attention online after it was shared by an amateur photographer. Brennan Gilmore, who lives in Cismont, Virginia, shared the picture on ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925, attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of all time. It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, ...

This time of year you have the best chance to see the farthest thing away that you can see with the unaided human eye. Away from city lighting, look in the southeastern sky in the early evening and ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...