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One of the year's best annual light shows is this weekend: the Perseid meteor shower, which will be at prime viewing in North America on the nights of August 11-12 and 12-13. The Perseids make their appearance every year...

See amazing photos of the night and daytime sky by stargazers on and off the planet in August 2013. Views of planets, stars and even the sun reveal amazing sites.

The evening of 12 August and morning of 13 August see the annual maximum of the Perseids meteor shower. This year prospects for watching this natural firework display are particularly good. Meteors (popularly known as 's...

The first in a cycle of challenging occultations of the bright star Spica for northern hemisphere observers begins this coming Monday on August 12th. Watching a bright star or planet wink out on the dark limb of the Moon...

The phenomenon of "solar braiding," hypothesized 30 years ago, has now been validated by images from an orbital telescope.

I remember seeing the Hubble 3-D IMAX movie in 2010 and literally gasping when the view pulled back from zooming into distant stars and galaxies to show clusters and superclusters of galaxies interwoven like a web, creat...