Although it is just now starting to feel like spring, last month was the official change of the seasons and now is a good ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

close to a star called Epsilon CrB, the constellation’s fifth brightest. Most astronomy and planetarium software programs and apps have T CrB in their catalogs, including Stellarium.

Who doesn’t have an interest in stars — they’ve intrigued people since the beginning of time. A one-hour program all about ...

In his latest book, published this month by Simon & Schuster and excerpted here, Ferris reflects on his lifelong passion for amateur astronomy and ... At sundown, at a star party on the high ...

the tired mother — each is a star or planet, and gazing at the sky connects them together in shapes and patterns, a map of my own constellations. The other night, after standing there on the ...