CYGNUS the swan is a beautiful constellation filled with plenty of interesting stars and deep-sky objects. It is visible this time of year almost anywhere in the world: in the northern hemisphere it ...

There are many great stories in the more than 60 constellations visible in the Pottsville night sky. There are heroes, hunters, musical instruments, royalty and all kinds of critters, including eight ...

Brilliant white Vega in Lyra heralds the rising of the Northern Cross. Or is it a swan? This map shows the sky facing northeast around 10:30 p.m. local time. Source: Stellarium Who hasn't had to deal ...

A sounding rocket toting a special imaging and spectroscopy instrument will take a brief trip to space Sunday night to try and capture as much data as it can on a long-admired supernova remnant in the ...

Using ESA's INTEGRAL spacecraft, astronomers have detected exceptionally bright X-ray flares from the Cygnus X-1 X-ray binary system. This is the first time that such strong flaring activity has been ...

In this illustrated and comprehensive guide, we point our eyes skyward towards the celestial heavens to explore the star constellations in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Star ...

At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer sky, beats a source of high-energy cosmic ray particles: the Cygnus Cocoon. An international group of scientists at the ...

Cygnus X, one of the brightest and closest star forming region in the Galaxy (marked in red), is at the centre of the Cygnus Cocoon, a vast astronomical structure that covers an area of Earth's sky an ...

Among the constellations seen from Earth throughout the year, there are heroes, hunters, musical instruments, royalty, and all kinds of critters, including eight birds. The biggest and brightest bird ...

There are all kinds of celestial characters among the constellations, and all of them have stories dreamed up by people over the eons. That’s certainly the case with the constellation Cygnus the Swan.

There are so many great stories in the over 60 constellations available to us in our night sky. There are heroes, hunters, musical instruments, royalty and all kinds of critters, including eight birds ...