Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 30The crescent Moon lies in Cancer this evening, just a few ...

This dense star field appears as a big, fuzzy patch in the night sky from anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere ... of wispy gas that resembles multicolored cotton candy against a background of orange ...

The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over and over again ... beyond—have looked at the Magellanic Clouds, two mini-galaxies in our celestial ...

In the sunshine, it seemed even warmer, and although many clouds shared the sky, they did not seem to ... leaves bore autumn’s banner against a background of black branches and blue skies.

There are some sources of background light even then ... from the more distant stars, keeping the sky dark. Sadly, this doesn’t work. Those clouds heat up from absorbing all that radiation ...

This process creates the classic shelf cloud—broad, arching, and often layered like a stack of waves in the sky. One of the reasons shelf clouds are so visually stunning is because of wind shear ...

Easter Sunday will be a mix of clouds and sunshine and highs will be in the low 60s and upper 50s. A partly cloudy sky in the morning will be a nice addition to the sunrise on Easter. Anyone ...