On the evening ofOctober 5, 2025, the night sky will offer a captivating sight: Saturn, the ringed giant of our solar system, will appear near the nearly full moon. If you look up around 8 p.m. local ...

A pairing-off of the brightest planet and a slender crescent moon will be the chief celestial attraction in the dawn sky ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, October 17The Summer Triangle is now sinking in the west late ...

August 22nd: The Swan Nebula (M17) reaches its highest point around 11 PM local daylight time, observable with binoculars or telescopes in northwestern Sagittarius. August 23rd: A New Moon, termed a ...

On September 5th, the constellation Camelopardalis, containing Kemble's Cascade and NGC 1502, will be visible in the northern sky after 11 PM local daylight time. Uranus will become stationary on ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...

Keep an eye on the night sky in October—you might catch a falling star! The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak on the ...

There are "blood," "super" and "blue" moons, and then there's the "black" moon. The "black moon," a rare phenomenon that occurs during a new moon phase of the lunar cycle, will occur this weekend. But ...

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was discovered on Sept. 10 by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly. It has brightened significantly since then, raising hopes that it could become a naked eye comet ...

Don't fret, though. The Orionids meteor shower, which began on Sept. 26, will peak around the time of the new moon on Tuesday ...