Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

Asteroid 40 Harmonia will reach opposition at 10 A.M. EST on January 1st, becoming observable with binoculars or a telescope in Gemini, positioned approximately 2.5° southeast of Mebsuta. Observation ...

Because rogue planets don’t orbit a host star, they can’t be found using astronomers’ typical go-to methods: radial velocity or transits. (Radial velocity measures the way a star wobbles as an unseen ...

January presents optimal viewing conditions for Jupiter, which reaches opposition on the 10th in Gemini at magnitude -2.7, offering its largest apparent diameter (47") and opportunities to observe ...

Robert Aitken, born in 1864, overcame childhood health challenges, including progressive deafness, to earn a B.A. in mathematics in 1887 and subsequently teach mathematics and astronomy. He embarked ...

Asteroids, characterized by their "starlike" telescopic appearance, are rocky celestial bodies predominantly found in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, though a significant subset known as ...

Mercury is currently observable as a bright –0.6 magnitude object in the predawn sky, though its visibility is rapidly decreasing as it approaches superior conjunction in late January. Optimal ...

The observation period features lunar appulses with Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, complemented by transits of Jupiter's Galilean moons (Io and Europa) and their shadows across the gas giant's disk.

The article details the observation of NGC 2264, designated as the Christmas Tree Cluster, on December 24. This celestial object is identified as a magnitude 3.9 combination open cluster and ...

During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

Hundreds of millions of debris fragments zip around Earth at speeds exceeding 15,000 mph, posing a constant threat to astronauts and spacecraft. Thanks to prohibitive costs, no one is bothering to ...

Lovell, the first individual to complete four spaceflights, significantly advanced the Gemini program's objectives through missions like Gemini VII, which established extended duration flight records ...