The Hubble Space Telescope turned 30 this year, and for the occasion, it’s sharing a present with you. NASA has just released dozens of newly processed Hubble images featuring 30 dazzling galaxies, ...

ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has re-discovered an ignored celestial gem. The object in question is one of the youngest and brightest supernova remnants in the Milky Way, the corpse of a ...

I absolutely love stargazing in January. The cold nights can undoubtedly be a challenge, but with determination and bundling up, it's worth it. The nights are long, with some of the brightest ...

Three of the heavens' nicest jewels right now are nearly overhead at the end of evening twilight, around 8:30 pm. The easiest one to see is the star Albireo, the second brightest star in the ...

The Milky Way contains some really, really big stuff: supergiant stars, unimaginably huge emission complexes, molecular clouds, star clusters, dark nebulae, and more. Beyond lie more galaxies and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Now that it gets darker a lot sooner in the evening, it’s easier to stargaze before the sandman starts working on your eyelids. You can spend a lot more time with your telescope or even just a nice ...

This Hubble image captures Caldwell 78 (or NGC 6541), a globular star cluster roughly 22,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is bright enough that backyard stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere ...