As you look up in the night sky and as you see familiar stars and constellations by season, have you ever thought to think what these stars and constellations will look like in 2000, 50,000 or 100,000 years from now? Come join me as we examine how the constellations will change over time and why.
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Deep within the cluster NGC 2158, recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have provided an incredibly detailed look at its stellar population, uncovering new insights into binary stars, mass functions, and a unique "M-dwarf discontinuity".
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Figure 1: A color image of AT2024tvd from HST and JWST. The yellow dot inside the square marks the galaxy’s center, while the TDE is the white dot, which is visibly offset to the upper left, about 2,600 light-years away.
In the vast architecture of the universe, most supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are homebodies. They sit at the gravitational hearts of their galaxies, growing fat on gas and dust. But astronomers have just discovered something that breaks the rules: a supermassive black hole caught "wandering" far from the center of its galaxy, announced by the violent destruction of a nearby star.
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On October 23rd, 2025, the weather was clear and beautiful and it was just two days after New Moon. I made the decision to head out and observe. I decided to go to one of my favorite places, The Knolls.I love going to The Knolls during the week. On most week nights where I go there is no one there and I have the location to myself. I never go here on the weekend because there are always RV's, trailers and ATVers and Motorbikes in the area. Season depends also on whether there are people out there or not. In the summer there can be people out here at night, but if you get away from the area where they camp, you are left alone.
If you’ve ever looked at a photo of the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), or looked at it through a telescope (see my sketch from 2010 above from a 14" telescope) and thought it looked like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, you aren’t alone. Even NASA describes its structures as "surreal."
This week, we got a brand-new look at this iconic object, but with a twist: for the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Euclid Space Telescope teamed up to give us the ultimate "wide-angle meets macro" view of a dying star.
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In the vast, silent reaches of the cosmos, there are few names that should hold as much weight for the backyard observerer or astronomer as Henrietta Swan Leavitt. While we often think of astronomy as a pursuit of great telescopes and high-altitude domes, Leavitt’s revolution happened on glass—thousands of photographic plates that "shattered the bowl of the sky" and turned a flat firmament into a three-dimensional universe.
