As the moon wanes toward its new phase on February 17, the month's prime astrophotography window opens. These nights are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a pyramid of light in the night sky For a few weeks starting on Thursday (March 9), skywatchers have the opportunity to catch a ...

This week, the Moon doesn’t rise until well after sunset, so it’s the perfect time to try viewing the zodiacal light, generated by sunlight scattering off dust in the inner solar system. At this time ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on a clear moonless night to see one ...

Night sky lovers have been getting all kinds of treats in the last month: A Perseid meteor shower that’s included fireballs, and a rare “Black Moon” that gave us a really dark sky - all the better to ...

There's an eerie light in the sky, and if you've recently been in a dark area just after dusk or before dawn, you may have already seen it. It's most visible in spring and fall and now is one of the ...

The transition from winter to spring has a special treat in store for stargazers: An eerie celestial glow known as “zodiacal light” may be visible in our darkest night skies during the coming weeks.

This is a view facing west March 24, right at the end of evening twilight from north of Duluth. The Pleiades star cluster and bright Jupiter appear about halfway up inside the zodiacal light's ...

A newly released image shows a colorful haze glowing above the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert at sunset. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) stands ...

Here’s some light reading. A stunning zodiacal light was spotted in the sky early Wednesday from Mount Washington in New Hampshire, according to the Mount Washington Observatory. “The zodiacal light ...

Astronomy magazine's Editor Emeritus, Dave Eicher, encourages pre-dawn observation of the zodiacal light. The zodiacal light is described as having a triangular, inverted cone-like appearance.