Andromeda is also a flattened spiral like the Milky Way, but it's twice as large — 220,000 light-years across versus 105,000 for the Milky Way — and crammed with a trillion suns. Can you even begin to ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

One of the classic constellations of the Pottsville night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horse is currently soaring in the southeastern early evening sky. The traditional ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are shown at once: the noisy, showy Milky Way crowds the north with its starry ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe one of the most famous deep-sky objects, the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31). Named for its location in the constellation Andromeda ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...

Our extra wet end of summer has given way to an extra dry stretch of weather for the leaf changing season. Maybe we will get some good viewing in. Fall’s evening sky is often thought of as the empty ...

There is so much going on this month for stargazers, including lunar conjunctions and cover-ups. One of the great meteor showers also puts on a show. October is a transitional month, both in terms of ...

One of the classic constellations of the night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horsey is currently soaring in the southeastern early evening sky. The traditional interpretation of ...