- Lagoon Nebula (M8) is an emission nebula in Sagittarius.

Do you remember the first time you truly discovered the universe? When I was a teenager, many moons ago, I bought my first telescope, a Celestron 8. I remember excitedly unboxing it the day it arrived ...

Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the ...

Photographer Alan Dyer observes the star clusters Messier 7 and Messier 6 near the horizon above Montana’s Sweetgrass Hills—two of the deep-sky objects included in the Messier Marathon. Alan Dyer, ...

A rare combination of lunar events, planetary alignments, and deep-sky visibility is set to transform May’s night sky into ...

You know, after decades of pointing optics toward the sky, I consider myself a knowledgeable observer. But while researching the Pleiades a few months back, I was surprised to learn that it wasn’t the ...

Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs traveling ...

Shannon Silverman, an Astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode four she shows us some Deep Sky Objects. Almost ...