Starlight but a twinkle in your eye The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, one of the smaller telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii (Source: JC Cuillandre/CFHT (APOD)) ...

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Telescopes always make a big showing at the Dark Sky Festival, if it has been too long since you've peered into the deeper ...

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 ...

After all, our sun is a star, but it doesn't twinkle as we bask in its light at the beach. The stars in the night sky are also enormous suns, anchoring their own solar systems. And if there's ...

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Every day, starlight streams through your window, and illuminates your path, even brightening the great ball of rock -- the moon -- orbiting our world. We call this starlight sunlight, but it is ...