Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. As autumn nights grow longer, one of the sky’s brightest ...

Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give way to the more subtle star patterns that highlight fall evenings. This fall ...

Autumn nights bring clear skies — unencumbered by the haze and mists of summer. That makes it a great time for stargazing. This fall we can enjoy the return of Saturn and Jupiter to the sky, along ...

The sun emits white light, which is a combination of all the colors of the visible light spectrum. That is the spectrum that the human eye is capable of seeing to varying degrees. Blue light tends to ...

The solar system’s most distant planet, Neptune, reaches opposition at 6 P.M. EDT. It’s located in far northeastern Aquarius, near the border of that constellation and nearby Pisces, where Jupiter ...

Before we can understand why the sky looks bluer in the fall, it's important to first know why the sky appears blue in the first place. The sun emits white light, and due to Rayleigh scattering (the ...