Astronomers

Betelgeuse, to put it more politely, belched.In the fall of 2019, the star, a red supergiant on the shoulder of the Orion the Hunters constellation, began to darken dramatically to less than half its usual brightness, and some astronomers…

The mysterious bright lights that streaked the night sky of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday weren't planes or meteors, but debris from a SpaceX rocket.At least that's what the experts said. But not everyone got the memo, so there was a…

The cluster NGC 6397 is one of approximately 150 spherical clouds of ancient stars that orbit the Milky Way and possibly lie before it is formed. It's 13 billion years old and contains roughly 250,000 stars, all old, small, and dark. The…