That's about the same brightness as Polaris, the North Star, the 48th-brightest star in the night sky. (In astronomy ... paint Earth's skies again in early June. Here are the key nights to ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

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"Ancient cultures tried to draw inferences between the events in the night sky and forecasting the future," says van Belle. Sometimes, it worked. The movement of constellations, for example ...