The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...

In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" -scientifically known as novae -are currently visible to the naked ...

Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

It doesn't happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar ...

The α-Capricornids and the Southern δ-Aquariids will light up the night of July 30th-31st with a combined total of 30 shooting stars per hour.

One member of this stellar quartet — Sigma — provides the Southern Hemisphere’s best Pole Star. The actual pole resides a bit more than 1° from Sigma, ...

The stars were valuable guides to European explorers who left the stars they knew — Polaris and the Big Dipper, for example — to navigate seas in the Southern Hemisphere.

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters ... It’s also worth stopping by the planets and northern-sky objects while in the Southern Hemisphere.

Explore the key differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including seasons, climate, constellations, and more, explained simply for students. Understand how Earth's tilt affects ...

Below, we dive into 11 constellations in the Southern Hemisphere you should know. 1. Crux. Crux, ... There’s no handy Polaris-like star in the Southern Hemisphere to mark the point for you, ...