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Late summer is an ideal time to take a visual journey through our Milky Way. Credit: Stuart Atkinson Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is a frustrating time for many amateur astronomers. The nights never get dark enough to easily see the faint, fuzzy galaxies and nebulas they enjoy gazing at through their telescopes, and there
The Gegenschein rests on the tip of the fainter, pyramid-shaped false zodiacal light. Credit: Stephen James O'Meara In April 1961, Galaxy The magazine contained an article titled “The Enigma Called Gegenschein” by German-American science writer Willy Ley. Referring to the mystery of who was the first to identify the faint glow of the Gegenschein, Ley
The Corona Borealis is located near the constellation Hercules. The position of T CrB is marked with a green dot. This view shows the sky around 2 a.m. local daylight time in mid-April. Please note that the constellations will rise and set at different times throughout the year, but their positions relative to each other
The Corona Borealis is located near the constellation Hercules. The position of T CrB is marked with a green dot. This view shows the sky around 2 a.m. local daylight time in mid-April. Please note that the constellations will rise and set at different times throughout the year, but their positions relative to each other
Return to article list This unnamed lunar feature has had many names, including Mons Undset after the 1928 Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset. An Apollo 15 image of Lambert Crater with Mons Undset to the west (right, where we added a circle) casting a pyramidal shadow. Mons Undset is named after the novelist Sigrid Undset.
