In my last column, I highlighted some of the best objects to view in the night sky through the end of the year. However, becoming a confident stargazer takes more than a list of targets: it requires an understanding of the patterns and paths that shape the night sky. When stargazing, ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of the terms used in astronomy and discussing what will be in the night sky through the end of the year. This includes planets, moons, comets and more. Some of ...

It’s most likely that none of us has completely adjusted to Daylight Saving Time (DST, or Eastern Daylight Time for us ... EDT) after moving our clocks forward an hour early Sunday morning. Each time we change the clocks to daylight time in the spring and back to standard time in the late ...

On Feb. 17, Edward Guinan of Villanova University, who has been closely watching Betelgeuse, reported that it has stopped the dimming I described in my column of Feb.1. It is remarkably dimmer, 36% below normal, than any of us have ever seen. Astronomers now expect the giant start to slowly ...

The large, bright, glittering constellations of winter illuminate our southern sky in the early evenings of February. As shown in Figure 1, at 8 p.m., Orion stands high in the south above Tupper Lake. Stretching 30 degrees vertically and about 20 degrees horizontally, it is one of the ...

Our universe is far larger than most of our tiny minds can fathom. However, one thing we know is that it is driven by forces which create astounding degrees of violence. There are, of course, also millions if not billions of years of relative stability in the lives of objects in the universe ...