Just about all observers align their finder scopes every time they go out to observe. It makes observing easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable. Here’s how to do it: In daylight, set up your ...

Astronomers using the Keck Observatory have detected some strange objects at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. At a glance they look like ordinary clouds of gas, but they seem to have a more solid ...

During natural viewing, certain objects (such as faces) require detailed central scrutiny to perform such subtle visual tasks as detecting facial expressions and eye gaze directions. Larger objects ...

Astronomers have been tracking a mysterious object near the center of the galaxy for decades, and now a new study has shed light on its identity – and its eventual fate in the coming years, when it ...

The dust-shrouded objects may be binary stars merging as they orbit the supermassive black hole in our galaxy's core. Astronomers have discovered four new and mysterious objects orbiting the Milky Way ...