Boötes is the 13th largest constellation in the night sky and contains one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus. Boötes is an ancient Greek word that roughly translates as the ox-driver, or ...

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The Boötes Void, a supervoid spanning approximately 300 million light-years, contains significantly fewer galaxies than expected, despite its size. Despite its distance of 700 million light-years, ...

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The very bright star near zenith at dusk is Arcturus. It is the fourth brightest star in the night sky, and a very tiny bit brighter than Vega, which can be seen rising over the eastern horizon at the ...

Catch it while you can.A spectacular show is coming to the night sky, as the Quadrantids meteor shower prepares to deliver one of the most intense bursts of shooting stars of the year.NASA says the ...

When looking up at the sky at night, it’s easy to get the impression that the stars go on forever in fairly uniform fashion. We know, of course, that this isn’t the case. Stars coalesce into galaxies, ...

June’s night skies provide excellent opportunities to discover a slice of the evening sky that is largely unsung, unheralded and usually ignored. Daniel Zantzinger / Skywatcher's Guide When, for ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The Boötes release is paramount as it enables the first three core ...