Skies above South Carolina sparkle with Christmas Star, meteor shower and supergiant Betelgeuse along with Jupiter, Venus and ...
Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...
The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...
Still, the Geminid meteor shower is typically one of the best and most reliable of the year, so skywatchers could spot some ...
Mars has now risen to the rank of the fifth brightest object in the pre-midnight evening sky, rivaled only by the moon, Venus, Jupiter and the brightest of all stars, Sirius.
Fixed stars are what we love in constellations, such as Sirius in Canis Major, or Regulus in Leo. Fixed stars are said to ...