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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Have you noticed Orion’s Belt returning to the evening night ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 8Pluto is stationary at 7 A.M. EDT in Capricornus, although ...

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On May 10, 2024, something unusual happened. Babak Tafreshi packed up his camera equipment and drove just an hour north of his home in Massachusetts to photograph the northern lights. For the first ...

Long before anyone had access to a weather app, people learned to read the sky. Sailors, farmers, and shepherds developed a ...

As I stumbled over rocks through pitch darkness, following a guy I had just met online, I began to question my life choices. It was the middle of the night, and I was wandering through a remote desert ...