Ah, it’s a lovely night for enjoying the outdoors. You go outside in the warm summer air to listen to the crickets and breathe in the scents of verdant life and then turn your head to the heavens. You ...

There have been many clear, dark nights recently. I hesitate to say this, but right now I think a little more light might be good for the region. But the only extra light source I am advocating is a ...

Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends starlight as it travels to Earth. But stars also have an innate 'twinkle' -- caused by rippling waves of gas on their ...

We all know how the lullaby goes, but now astrophysicists have finally caught up — reproducing the eerie thrumming sound of a star's "twinkle, twinkle" for the first time. By simulating the turbulent ...

Look in the southern sky after dark for Jupiter to form a right triangle with bright stars Fomalhaut and Altair. About halfway between those stars, you'll also find Saturn. Jupiter is bright so you ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night in a dark area, and the stars appear to twinkle. The concept is so well established that it's the premise of one of the most popular children's songs of all time.

When you look up at the night sky, almost every star appears to fluctuate rapidly in brightness, or blink in and out, or shift positions slightly. The little stars are twinkling, twinkling (the ...