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 ...

February's full "Snow Moon" will be at its fullest on Sunday, Feb. 1, and will be best seen at moonrise. It will appear just beneath the Beehive Cluster, one of the closest star clusters to the solar ...

Warm summer nights in August offer a front-row seat to some of the most mesmerizing star clusters in the sky. According toEarthSky.org, this month brings prime viewing opportunities for three of 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, ...

Cygnus may be sinking toward the horizon a few hours after sunset, but there’s still a bit of time to glimpse some of this constellation’s many treasures. Today let’s try for M39, a loose open cluster ...

Take advantage of the dark window before the crescent Moon rises to explore the Rosette Nebula, also cataloged as NGC 2237. This gorgeous sight is made up of a central open star cluster surrounded by ...

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 ...