Stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions and even a visible nebula. Yes, a formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" – ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

There’s a short dark window of about an hour after the Moon sets and before twilight begins to brighten the sky this morning. Use it to track down one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky: ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope commemorated its 34th year since its launch with a magical view of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, located approximately 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Perseus.

August's full moon, the sturgeon moon, will be at its peak Aug. 9. The Perseids meteor shower peaks Aug. 12-13 but the full moon may make them hard to see. One of the easiest planetary nebulas to ...

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A rare black moon will happen tonight Aug. 22-23. A seasonal black moon happens every 33 months. Since a black moon is a new moon, you might be able to spot the Milky Way and the dumbbell nebula. A ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...