THE Taurid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, casting “slow and bright” shooting stars across the sky. These fireballs, ...
Above this celestial show, shooting stars streak across the sky, their brief but brilliant trails adding to the magic ...
and ought to produce around 10 or 20 “shooting stars” per hour, though perhaps as many as 40. They’re caused by debris left in the solar system by Halley’s Comet. Get outside an hour ...
Skygazers across the Southwest U.S. spotted a possible fireball breaking up in the night sky, but it turns out this shooting ...
The distant ice giant is 5.7° southwest of the the Pleiades (M45), one of the most famous star clusters in the sky. Uranus also lies quite close to a fainter, magnitude 7.6 field star this ...
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...
The annual Orionid meteor shower peaked over the weekend, but we’re far from finished with the opportunity to see the show.
Skygazers across the Southwest U.S. spotted a possible fireball breaking up in the night sky, but it turns out this shooting ...