Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

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Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

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A Cape Cod astronomer is tracking T Coronae Borealis, a star system that's expected to go nova soon. Here’s what you need to ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

Go outside and face west at 8 p.m. Right in front of you, very close to the horizon is Orion the Hunter, the sky’s most ...

they should appear to emerge from one star in the constellation and one of the brightest stars in the night sky, Vega. However, NASA also recommends looking at the Lyrids away from their radiant ...

We bundled up for the 20-degree weather and I knelt on the ground, cheek pressed to my kindergartner’s cheek, aligning his vision with mine to find Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

the nova will be as bright as the North Star, known as Polaris, Preston Dyches, who hosts NASA's "What's Up," a monthly video series that describes what's happening in the night sky, wrote for ...