One of the pleasures of stargazing is noticing and enjoying the various colors that stars display in dark skies. Even as you observe these stellar colors, do you notice that they're recognizable only ...

When we think of color in the night sky, we often think of beautiful images of galaxies and nebulae. Unfortunately, most of the time, their faint, diffuse light shows no color to our human eyes. Stars ...

The color of stars has been noted from antiquity and the names of many stars reflect their visible color. The red Antares is the heart of the scorpion. The brightest star Sirius is derived from the ...

From Aldebaran to Vega, these gleaming beacons dazzle Northern Hemisphere viewers at various times of the year and provide a useful entry point into amateur astronomy Carlyn Kranking | Associate Web ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Skywatchers looking east a couple of hours after dark this ...

One of the pleasures of stargazing is noticing and enjoying the various colors that stars display in dark skies. Star colors are always interesting to observe, since they add so much to the character ...