When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options.
If you look halfway up in the northwest, you'll be able to see the familiar zigzag of five bright stars forming the ...
Jones-Emberson 1 is a large, faint planetary nebula. It's nicknamed the "Headphone Nebula" due to its shape. Located 1600 light-years away, it's a difficult object to observe. Its central star is very ...
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Many faint planetary nebulae went undiscovered for surprisingly long times after Charles Messier and the Herschels stopped cataloguing nebulous objects lying around parts of the sky. It wasn't until ...
Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...
Finding such a large concentration of iron in this precise shape is difficult to explain using existing models of how ...
Who knew you could get nearly Webb telescope-quality images of space from the comfort of your home? Bob Schiff’s been doing it for a year now with amazing results, using a motorized rig that tracks ...
Of all the objects that you can view through a telescope, some of the most stunning to behold are the planets in our solar system, and the galaxies that lie far beyond it. But if you want to see more ...
Thanks to Dwarf, Impulse Gamer were given an exclusive opportunity to test out the world’s smallest smart telescope, the ...
Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the ...
Photographing the deep sky at night can be a complicated business involving specialist knowledge, expensive and bulky equipment and a good deal of patience. DwarfLab's book-sized smart telescopes have ...
January new moon brings darker skies and prime stargazing conditions across hemispheres. A new moon takes place when the Sun ...