inhabited by only stellar remnants like white dwarfs and black holes. Even though our night sky isn’t completely filled with stars, we live in a very special time in the universe’s life ...

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system ... It's a binary star system with a cool, red giant star and a smaller, hotter white dwarf star orbiting each other.

I love photographing the night sky ... star expands into what astronomers call a red giant. The red giant is hundreds of times its original size and more unstable. Eventually, all that is left is ...

From tracking the seasons to “following the gourd” to freedom, knowledge of the stars was imperative ... sunset. But Black people have also found consolation in the night sky.

Early-rising and late-night stargazers ... display as the star’s light is refracted by Earth’s atmosphere. The higher the star in the sky, the more steady and white its light appears to ...

NASA has created a stunning timelapse movie of the entire night sky captured ... for NEOWISE. "Stars are flaring and exploding," she added. "Asteroids are whizzing by. Black holes are tearing ...