Look up at the night sky during November to catch Saturn and Neptune shining brightly together high in the southern sky.
Spot November’s supermoon, Leonids peak, and Uranus at opposition, plus a dark-sky new moon and a Moon-Saturn pairing. Here’s ...
Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud ...
Nov. 5 — Full moon, the “beaver moon” and the “hunter's moon,” another super moon At this position in the moon’s orbit around ...
The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy department. Aida Melgarejo, a Spanish linguistics student, said she came across ...
The best news for stargazers in November is that nights are much longer and you can start your stargazing well before 7 p.m.
Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...
At magnitude 9.5, the Ghost’s Goblet is visible in binoculars and even more striking through a telescope, where its triangular core appears as the “cup” of a ghostly goblet. Astronomy contributor ...
The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...
This telescope attaches to your smartphone and lets you zoom in on stuff that's far away. It's a fun accessory that's perfect ...
A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to achieve the sharpest-ever measurement of a star's surrounding disk, revealing ...