Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. July is packed with celestial events for stargazers, from ...

The Milky Way is most prominent in the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere, with the Cygnus star clouds and Summer Triangle being notable features. Mid-northern latitude observers face challenges ...

The Milky Way lights up the sky over Cathedral Rock in the Coconino National Forest in Sedona, Arizona. Deborah Lee Soltesz, U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest The starry night sky can look ...

Looking for an alternative to fireworks? Stargazers can catch a cosmic light show this Independence Day when the Milky Way appears in the night sky. The center of our home galaxy, which is composed of ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible to stargazers in the southern hemisphere, including Tennessee, this month and throughout August. No special equipment is needed to view the galaxy, just a dark sky ...

David Lean's 1962 epic kicks off Matías Bombal's Wide Screen Roadshow series, which is set for second Sundays of each month ...

Epic sky. Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. This shot was ...

Stargazing North Carolinians are in luck this month – one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena will be visible soon. During May 2025, the Milky Way, our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...