Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

That’s the elliptical galaxy NGC 5846, which appears about 4 ... Dominating the constellation Taurus is bright Jupiter, shining at magnitude –2.1 farther to the Pleiades’ upper left.

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

This first full month of spring also presents a micromoon, a chance to see an iconic (if distant) galaxy, and a very frisky Jupiter ... The moon’s elliptical orbit means that its distance ...

Scott Bolton says he first dreamed of traveling through the galaxy when he was a boy camping out under the stars. Brent Humphreys Jupiter guards ... s team designed an elliptical orbit that ...

The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window narrows as the Sun sets later each day. Mars is past its best, but remains ...

The planet Jupiter stood almost at the zenith ... the poles of a massive black hole at the center of this giant elliptical galaxy. (Nothing can escape from inside a black hole, but its ...

They're classified as elliptical spiral and irregular. What are these, Liam? Galaxies. Galaxies ... she was the wife and sister of Jupiter who worshiped Kyle. Kara. No, no. Sorry.