Comets are common in the universe, but not a lot of them are frequent visitors to our solar system. Those that do take the ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

The skies over Iowa have been quite the place to see some stellar sites as of late. The Lights of the North have visited Iowa ...

The Popular Astronomy Club meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Butterworth Center in Moline. All are ...

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From my backyard I got to see an aurora and a comet with my naked eyes. Yes, the camera showed both of those much more clearly, but it was fun seeing these rare events without assistance. I have seen ...

The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...

Around 35 participants gathered on Oct. 28 in Fayette for a Night Sky Tour led by John Meader, experiencing a guided ...

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Stellar Stories Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS now a faint naked-eye object Moving across the constellation Ophiuchus in the evening ...

Recently, we were gifted with the return of a once-every-80,000-years comet. From the college mesa, as I scanned the horizon, ...