The night sky has always doubled as a clock and a canvas, but for ancient civilizations it was also a warning system, a political adviser, and sometimes a courtroom witness. Long before satellites and climate models, priests and scholar-astronomers scanned the heavens for signs that could make or break empires. Today, it is tempting ...
Long before observatories, satellites, or even telescopes, people around the world could look up at a darkening sun or a blazing comet and calmly say, in effect, “We knew this was coming.” For many Indigenous cultures, eclipses and comets were not random terrors but expected visitors, woven into careful cycles of observation and story. Today, ...
Imagine listening to the cosmos itself pulsing with life. Scientists have discovered something extraordinary in the vast darkness of space: binary star systems that literally beat like hearts. These celestial objects, aptly named s, are rewriting our understanding of stellar behavior and the intricate dance between gravitational forces in the universe. When plotted over time, ...
June is the prime time to see the Milky Way’s brilliant core as it is presenting its best performance of the year. For stargazers, this is “core season” the window through which the brilliant heart of our galaxy flows across the night sky like a celestial river of stars. But catching this cosmic show calls ...
The night sky of June is expected to show a pair of amazing conjunctions one with the elusive Mercury and the other with a remarkably near encounter between the Moon and Mars. These events serve as a reminder of the clockwork accuracy of our solar system and an opportunity to see planetary motions that even ...
