It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...

For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night ... sky. In 1924, Mount Stromlo Observatory, located outside Canberra, took over observing the Milky Way.

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

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 ... I became aware that extraordinary ...

Hein van Grouw, Senior Curator of Birds, and UK Biodiversity Training Manager Steph Holt reveal the impacts of light pollution on British wildlife and a few tips for reclaiming your slice of the night ...

March 24 (UPI) --An Australian father and son took to the sky in a glider and broke a Guinness ... having discipline and really trying hard is the way to get what you want to achieve, and that's ...