For Pettit, a big part of telling stories is through photos ... s brush strokes. Stars streak across the horizon in beautiful patterns. And when you zoom in on Earth at night, city grids and ...

gain sharper images and capture deep sky objects such as galaxies and nebulas. If you are shooting a long-exposure shot of stars without a star tracker, the movement of the Earth will mean that ...

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

These ancient stars are incredibly dense. A teaspoonful of their matter would weigh as much on Earth as an elephant ... are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used as ...