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"The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!" -Tyrell, from Blade Runner Look up at the night sky. On a clear, dark night with normal vision, you can literally see thousands of stars.

Star Lady Pam Eastlick will help you find the Southern Triangle and Ara the Altar.

Starry Starry Night: Other highlights in the sky this week include Mars, Venus and Centaurus.

A stunning time-lapse recorded by the captain of a Boeing 777-300 offers a rare cockpit perspective of the ...

But you don’t have to wait a long time to see the Magic Half Hour again. It happens every year in April and May. What does change is the planets you can see and this year, you can see all five planets. Two of them, Jupiter and Saturn, are in the early morning sky and the other three are in your Magic Half Hour evening sky. Just watch the sun set this week and as it begins to grow dark, look for two bright stars above the position of the setting sun. The lower one will be very bright, and it i...

The top 3 constellations in Guam’s sky in May By Pam Eastlick View Comments Greetings everyone! Don’t forget to have a look at Jupiter and Saturn in the early morning sky and of course Mars is in our early evening sky. There will be some significant planet news coming up and I’ll tell you all about it soon. But the real glory in May here on Guam is the Magic Half Hour when you can see eight of the 10 brightest stars, the three most famous constellations and the largest and smallest conste...

Autumn astronomyBy: James Smith Autumn is my favourite time for observing the night skies. The evenings are cooler, but not yet too cold. The skies get darker earlier, so we don’t have to stay up so late, and we have the best objects to see in autumn. Some of our favourite Southern Hemisphere constellations are in full display. The Southern Cross is easily seen, as well as Orion (including the ‘Pot’) and Canis Major. Taurus, Cancer and Gemini are also visible in autumn. The first two rea...

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Meeting the Milky Way The road to ESO’s La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert appears to curve around the mountain and collide with the downward slope of the Milky Way in this Picture of the Week. Small yellow bulbs light up the road at regular intervals; it is prohibited to use headlights on these roads between dusk and dawn, as even dim lights can interfere significantly with telescope observations. The site enjoys some of the darkest night skies on Earth. The darkness, high al...

An Otherworldly Glow The antennas comprising the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, appear to emit an eerie, vivid shade of green light in this Picture of the Week. Situated high up on the isolated Chajnantor plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert, ALMA seems like the perfect place for friendly extraterrestrials to discreetly land and make contact…but something far more mundane is responsible for this otherworldly green glow. The light emanates from i...