A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from Earth.

A composite of star photos, made in Joshua Tree during a dark-sky photography workshop, lead by Desert Institute on Sept. 16, 2023. (Julia Carmel / Los Angeles Times) Follow the star trails ...

The new Milky Way dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects. Here, a low-resolution image of the data, right, is overlaid on an image showing the full sky.