As the final month of the year begins, early evenings offer just one naked-eye planet. Fortunately for us, that lone world is Saturn. The ringed planet lies high in the northwest as twilight fades, ...
Fomalhaut (Alpha Piscis Austrini), a magnitude 1.2 star, is visible in the southern sky after 8:30 PM local daylight time, reaching its highest point around midnight. Located 25 light-years from Earth ...
A groundbreaking new telescope, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), has marked a monumental step in astronomy. This cutting-edge instrument, mounted on the European Southern ...