Skygazers are still waiting for the celestial event of the year, when a dance between two stars 3,000 light-years away ends in a massive explosion and creates a new dazzling temporary "star" in the ...

Astronomers measure distances to the stars in terms of light years, units that combine time and distance. One light year is the distance light travels in one year; so if you look at a star ten ...

This recurrent nova, located approximately 3,000 light ... "Blaze Star" is most easily done by first locating the Big Dipper/Plough, one of the most recognizable patterns in the night sky.

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red ... stars in the night sky, astronomers say. "It's going to be ...

Located about 3,000 light years from Earth, the “Blaze Star” is actually two stars. One is a white dwarf star, dead and shriveled, about the size of Earth. The other is an ancient red giant ...

If you live in a rural location with no light pollution to interfere ... Venus will have a tight conjunction with one of the 21 brightest stars in the sky, bluish Regulus in the constellation ...

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius ... it’s one of the closest stars to the Earth, a little over eight and a half light-years away, with ...

Early morning risers who head out to work and school before sunrise are likely beginning to notice an extremely bright star-like object appearing low in the eastern sky just before the sun itself.