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From active meteor showers to the best Milky Way viewing, and a recently launched telescope that will unlock new views of outer space, July will bring a plethora of astronomical events and sights.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children love looking up at the stars and imagining distant galaxies, but with just their eyes, they can only see so much.

Although I’ve spent decades as a deep-sky observer, I’ve always been fascinated by the Sun. Solar observing offers clear advantages: It’s accessible anywhere, immune to light pollution, and doesn’t ...

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to achieve the sharpest-ever measurement of a star’s surrounding disk, revealing ...

Astronomy Day is an annual event in which professionals invite the community to come learn more about space. This Saturday, May 3, several West Michigan observatories are hosting events allowing ...