Our Arizona night sky offers up some really amazing sights and some that are better viewed from remote locations! What about something that is equally fascinating and visible from the brightly lit ...

Our January night sky offers up some really amazing sights and some that are better viewed from remote locations. What about something that is equally fascinating and visible from the brightly lit ...

One of the hallmark aspects of the winter Colorado sky is its superb array of bright stars and constellations. The crown jewel in this array is the brightest star in the entire night sky, the sapphire ...

Stars come in all colors and sizes. But our eyes limit us to seeing very few of those colors. And the range of apparent magnitudes of stars we can see with our naked eye is also rather limited.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been working to improve methods for calibrating standard stars for more than a decade. Standard stars – or “standard ...