About 10 years ago, I was severely bitten by the aperture bug. I was using large telescopes in rural locations to chase down galaxies, as well as obtain detailed views of brighter objects. And while ...

Kevin Gill knew that things were getting serious with his astrophotography when he sold an old guitar in order to buy a new camera. The software engineer has been capturing celestial objects from his ...

Nothing beats a star-filled winter night sky. There are more bright stars shining in winter’s sky than in summer with winter constellations Taurus, Auriga and especially Orion all containing very ...

Located just under Orion's Belt, the Horsehead Nebula joins other clouds of glowing gas and dust to create one of the galaxy's most memorable sights. The Horsehead Nebula, a dark cloud of cosmic dust ...

A teen has left the internet in awe after sharing incredible photographs of space he took from his backyard. Rudy Siggs (u/Regular_Ad_4858), a 17-year-old Physics student, who lives in the French Alps ...

A dying star casts away shells of dust and gas that form the Egg Nebula, located 3,000 light-years from Earth in the Northern Cross (Cygnus). A dust belt running almost vertically through the nebula's ...

The Pencil Nebula (NGC 2736) is the brightest part of the Vela supernova remnant. About 11,000 years ago, humans in the Southern Hemisphere witnessed a brilliant new star in what is now known as the ...