Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

J uly is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

Sky watchers are in for a sweet pre-summer treat, with the “strawberry moon” of June 2025 getting ready to turn full in the coming days. The so-called strawberry moon, which will actually look ...

The standstill is an occurence that stems from the moon’s orbit being tilted in relation to both Earth’s equator and the sun’s path across our sky. That tilt slowly shifts over an 18.6-year ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...