Using the 104-cm Sampurnanand optical telescope, Indian astronomers have performed photometric observations of an open cluster named King 6, which resulted in the detection of three new variable stars ...

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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. February 19: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation Rising around 7:30 P.M. local time and visible all night and into the ...

You’ve got a great chance to see the planet George this week in our Pottsville skies, as it has a very close celestial hug with the best open star cluster in the heavens, the Pleiades star cluster, ...

Warm mid-August summer nights offer prime conditions for spotting three magnificent star clusters visible to northern-hemisphere skywatchers in the coming months. Star clusters are gravitationally ...

Astronomers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have inspected a Galactic open cluster known as NGC 2506 as part of the WIYN Open Cluster ...

You’ve got a great chance to see the planet George this week in our skies, as it has a very close celestial hug with the best open star cluster in the heavens, the Pleiades star cluster, otherwise ...