Star watch

What would you have to do to get a crater on the Moon named after you? First you would have to be deceased (I’ll wait) and second you would have to be a leading scientist,

Astronomers say there are billions of galaxies in our Universe each containing billions of stars. Even our own Milky Way galaxy is believed to include more than 200 billion.
But aren’t most of these

High in the September evening skies about halfway between the bright stars Arcturus and Vega lies a group of seven stars that make up the constellation Corona borealis, the “Northern Crown.”
Wikipedia.org reports that

Of the 88 constellations established by the International Astronomer’s Union(IAU), nine are named in Latin after birds. Five of these constellations are located in the southern sky and are not visible from our northern locations.

In previous articles, we’ve talked about planets orbiting stars outside our Solar System that scientists call “exoplanets.” To date, NASA says there are about 6,300 that have been identified, but that number is about to

If you think the scientists and engineers named a $16 billion telescope after someone whose accomplishments were really, really important to the science of astronomy, you’d be right!

Wrapped around Polaris and the Little Dipper in our northern sky is a group of 17 or so so stars that make up the constellation Draco, Latin for “dragon.”
Being so close to Polaris