Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. It’s one of the most common words used by astronomers—and ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...

Gone are the days when the Ring Nebula looked sort of like a bagel, or a jelly doughnut, a massive astronomical blob holding the secrets of a dying star. The new images of the famous Ring Nebula from ...

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ESO has released a new image of the Trifid Nebula, showing just why it is a firm favourite of astronomers, amateur and professional alike. This massive star factory is so named for the dark dust bands ...

As 'Alien: Earth' hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise's iconic villain. When I aimed my Vaonis Vespera Pro smart telescope at the Eastern Veil Nebula, the last thing I ...

The massive star factory known as the Trifid Nebula was captured in all its glory with the Wide-Field Imager camera attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern ...