It'll be an active sky over several days in August 2025, with planets visible, meteor showers and nebulas popping up. Here's ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up in August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.

While most of the planets will be visible to the naked eye, others will require special equipment to be spotted.

Webb observations provide insights into planet and star formation The observations came from the Webb telescope, which surveyed a nebula named NGC 1333. The giant space cloud of dust and gas is ...

It'll be an active sky over several days in August 2025, with planets visible, meteor showers and nebulas popping up. Here's your handy guide for NJ.

If you own a telescope with an aperture (the size of the lens or mirror) of 4 inches or more, there’s a wonderful object now ...

Pictured are a NASA artist's concept of a Jupiter-like rogue planet and a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope's spectroscopic survey of the nebula NGC1333 (inset).

Planetary nebulae are short-lived objects that persist for up to 10,000 years before dispersing to invisibility, enriching the galaxy with matter than can be recycled to create future stars and ...

The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or ...

Object Details Author Pasachoff, Jay M Contents A first look at the sky -- A tour of the sky -- The monthly sky maps -- The constellations -- Stars, Nebulae, and galaxies -- Double and variable stars ...

A longtime favorite of astronomers, the Ring Nebula has been studied for years due to its observability and the insight it can provide into the lifetime of stars. It is located in the Lyra ...