The initial premise of "Sunshine" -- the sun is dying and mankind has put all hope in a desperate effort to reignite our star with a nuclear payload of galactic dimensions -- is more fantasy than ...

Exploring the stars takes a creative turn with Draw the Night Sky, an interactive video game developed by Kennesaw State ...

Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness to each other, look for the orange-gold of Mars and blue-white of Regulus to ...

Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...

Among those is the brightest star in Orion’s sword, designated HR1899 in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 45 Orionis by Flamsteed number, and Iota Orionis by Bayer’s Greek letter system.

As Alabama's oldest family-owned restaurant, The Bright Star in Bessemer has plenty of history to share.

The total number of stars that can be seen with the naked eye is 9,095, according to the Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Edition.

Stars live longer than you expect Driessen points out that many visible stars, including those in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, can live for billions of years.

The Steve Martin-Edie Brickell country musical 'Bright Star' arrives in Los Angeles on tour with several original castmembers, including Carmen Cusack reprising her Tony-nominated role.

The heavy lifting is done using some public domain code ported over. This code derives from a book called Astronomical Algorithms and uses the Yale Bright Star Catalog database.

Yale Bright Star Catalogue published by Yale University contains a list of 9,096 stars with a brightness of 7 or higher, which is roughly the limit of what can be seen with the naked eye.

Using data from a year-long dedicated campaign to observe bright stars, we study the crosstalk channels present in the GPC1 camera. By analyzing these data, we construct a data set that checks source ...