Have you ever looked up on a clear night at the stars and noticed that some of them seemed to twinkle or dance? This twinkling is due to the Earth’s atmosphere. When light reaches Earth from a star, ...

This article originally appeared in the May, 2010 issue of Astronomy. Many observers consider the Sun the ultimate celestial villain because it robs them of valuable telescope time. But look on the ...

FALL RIVER — If you don’t know where to find the Big Dipper, the Milky Way, or the center of our galaxy when you look up into the night sky, then you’ll never truly know your way around the Earth’s ...

Our readers could probably recite a dozen reasons they put up with freezing air, fogged lenses, expensive accessories, and time-consuming mount collimation in order to experience hands-on astronomy.