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 ...

The faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye in the night sky, from a very dark site, is about magnitude 6.) "In about 2016 there was a sharp dimming [down to magnitude 11], and then ...

Jupiter and Mars are high overhead, and they’re both bright enough to stand out. Jupiter looks like the second brightest star and it’s almost straight overhead. Mars is high in the eastern sky and ...