The sun is the brightest object in the sky. It’s so bright that during the day its light drowns out everything else in space. The sun is so powerful that even from the earth, its light can damage your eyesight. 1 The best time to appreciate the sun from the earth is during a ...
An interesting thing about Capella is that it’s been there all along. It’s the northernmost first-magnitude star, so far north that it’s circumpolar at the UK’s latitudes. That means it doesn’t rise and set like most other stars. Instead, it’s in the sky every night of the ye...
But last year, the study authors determined the object was in fact a quasar using a telescope at theSiding Spring Observatoryin Australia. They followed up with data from theVery Large Telescopein Chile to determine the quasar was the brightest ever seen...
In most nights the moon is the brightest thing in the sky.This is because it reflects(反射)light from the sun.It doesn’t shine itself. What we see of the moon changes from night to night.Its changing shapes are called phases(盈亏).The pictures of the moon’s phases show the shapes ...
That satellite, known as the Humanity Star, "is expected to become the brightest thing in the night sky," Rocket Lab said in a statement. SEE ALSO: Space startup Rocket Lab successfully sent a rocket to orbit The Humanity Star is shaped like a geodesic sphere and is designed to spin aro...
However, it's around three times further away, at a distance of 25 light-years from us, so it doesn't look quite as bright in the sky. A couple of things make it a particularly interesting star for astronomers. For one thing, it's relatively young — only about 450 million years ...
Astronomers would typically expect a burst so powerful to herald the dawn of a supernova—when the death of a star erupts with a luminosity so great, it rivals that of an entire galaxy—but scientists have yet to find evidence of such a thing, despite searching with both the James Webb ...
couple of things make it a particularly interesting star for astronomers. For one thing, it's relatively young — only about 450 million years old, which is less than a tenth the age of our own sun. So observing it can tell us how stellar systems behave in the relatively early phases of...
The Brightest Thing in the World is a funny, heartfelt new play that celebrates love, family, and the people in our lives who shine the brightest. “I love Leah Nanako Winkler’s use of language and the smart, messy, recognizable women at the center of the story. She has created a pl...
Page 2 of 7 - The “brightest thing in the night sky” is now in orbit - posted in General Observing and Astronomy: Id like to see it once, but it will probably be cloudy anyway. In ten years theyll be sending them up with ads on them.