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 ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

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 ...

A streak of lights gliding silently across the velvet night sky—some people gasp in awe, others sigh in dismay. This isn’t a ...

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.

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 ...