The sun is the brightest star in the sky, and Sirius, at the nose of the winter constellation Canis Major, the big dog, is second brightest. But it’s popular Polaris, the North Star, that is … ...

Why do we photograph the Milky Way in summer? Were we to watch the sky on any night from dusk to dawn we would notice certain stars rising from above the eastern horizon in the evening hours.

If you've ever looked at the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere, you may have noticed that gleaming object that everything appears to move around. What you're seeing is the Polaris Star, also ...

For some reason most people think the North Star—called Polaris—is the brightest star in the night sky, probably because it’s one of the few that they can easily name.

Celestial photo highlights Polaris and its surrounding dust in the night sky This is a photograph synthesized digitally from the faint gases and dust ...

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