One of the most fascinating and beautiful deep space objects an astrophotographer can image is a nebula. The word nebula means cloud or fog. The reality is that it is a distinct body of interstellar ...

The blue color of the daytime sky results from Rayleigh scattering, where atmospheric atoms and molecules preferentially scatter the blue wavelengths of sunlight more than red, rather than being the ...

On May 10, 2024, something unusual happened. Babak Tafreshi packed up his camera equipment and drove just an hour north of his home in Massachusetts to photograph the northern lights. For the first ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy ...

As the glow of artificial light has spread across the world, the number of places dark enough to see a sky rich with stars has shrunk. In North America and across Oregon, only a small percentage of ...

Night Sky 11 is an impressive planetarium in your pocket, with an interface that's easy to read and manipulate, even for beginners. Why you can trust Space.com Our expert reviewers spend hours testing ...