Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The disappearance of the Milky Way from Earth’s skies is a “cultural loss of unprecedented magnitude,” the study’s lead ...

This is a shame - while most globulars lie in sparsely populated regions outside the plane of the Milky Way, M56 dazzles at magnitude 8.3 amidst countless colorful summer Milky Way stars.

What certainly will be visible —albeit from a dark sky destination — will be the Milky Way, which flows through ... from Earth and shining at a magnitude of +4.1 in the constellation Ophiuchus ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help. If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when ...

Through these discoveries came her most important contribution to the field: the study of cepheid variable stars in the Magellenic Clouds -- the Milky Way's ... a star's magnitude (degree of ...