How would you like to see about a million stars, all crammed together in a tight ball in our Rochester night sky? Well you can do just that. The Great Hercules star cluster is one of the true ...

M13, the Hercules Cluster, is a globular cluster of stars. Globular clusters are large, old, and spherical. They orbit the Milky Way differently than open clusters. You can see M13 with a moderately ...

The Great Hercules star cluster is one of the true treasures of the summer and early autumn sky. It’s a dense cluster of stars all crammed together in a tight sphere that you’ll love to direct your ...

Sometimes we have no clue what's over our heads. On July nights it's easy to find out. As soon as the sky gets dark (around 10:30-11 p.m. local daylight time) look high up in the southeastern sky for ...

The Great Hercules Star Cluster is one of the true treasures of the summer and early autumn sky. It’s a dense cluster of stars all crammed together in a tight sphere that you’ll love directing your ...

If you find yourself in a dark, un-light-polluted area anytime soon, be sure to glance around the sky with binoculars. Along the hazy band of the Milky Way and elsewhere, you’re sure to find plenty of ...

Late June is the best time in the year to observe the brightest and best globular clusters in the northern sky. Globular clusters are among the oldest objects in the universe, perhaps older than the ...

It seems like the only things I have seen in the evening sky recently have been clouds. Although the garden plants are happy with the rain, my dogs are unhappy about the thunder. Whenever the sky does ...

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up! Did you know that you have a planetarium in your ...