You know, after decades of pointing optics toward the sky, I consider myself a knowledgeable observer. But while researching the Pleiades a few months back, I was surprised to learn that it wasn't the ...

We reached the watering hole. The view might have been beautiful, had we come to appreciate the way the deep blue sky dotted with a billion stars was streaked with red and violet light coming from ...

The Hubble Deep Field ... This triangle points to a pair of faint stars which are right on the edge of naked eye visibility from a dark sky site. Binoculars will show them easily though.