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Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...
Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...
In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...
Professional astrologer Steph Koyfman reads your monthly horoscope—and spells out how it may shape your travels.
A stretch of warm, humid weather will dominate Magnolia this weekend into early next week, with scattered thunderstorms but ...
Look west in early May to find Mars near the Beehive Cluster (M44) in the constellation Cancer. On May 1, use binoculars to ...
Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.
Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.
A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...
View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.