January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

The four bright objects near the western horizon (bottom right) are Venus, the Moon, Jupiter, and Mercury. Thirty-two fiber optic lights illuminate the brighter stars in the night sky. For the ...

Astronomers are often asked how the casual observer can distinguish planets from bright stars in the night sky.

So it can be seen slowly moving across the entire night sky with respect to the background stars—and it’s therefore Earth’s changing position in the solar system that is the biggest factor ...

An exposure longer than about 25 seconds will start to show star trails and capture their movement as they travel across the night sky, so experiment with timings. Generally, the rule of thumb is to ...

The Winter Triangle is formed by three bright stars: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky in the constellation Canis Major, Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in Orion, and Procyon in the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. They’re unmissable ... now—going backward with respect to the background stars—which it always does around the time ...

MORE: 'Zombie star' could flare up for the first time in 80 years on Halloween "Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA ...

As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador and member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky ... star Castor, one of the two "twins" of Gemini. The ...

"Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA, told ABC News. Stars can be seen in the night sky. Picture Alliance/DPA via ...