The northern stars turn around Polaris and the North Celestial Pole in a composite spanning multiple hours during a single night in the summer of 2014. The bright point at the center is Polaris, our ...

Polaris, also known as the 'Pole Star' or 'North Star', is arguably the most famous stellar body to hang in the western hemisphere's night sky. For centuries it has served as a vital waypoint for ...

Every community has a tourist attraction everyone knows about but locals never visit. Perhaps it's because it's always there and can be seen anytime. And yet "anytime" often ends up translating to ...

This illustration shows how Earth’s spin axis (blue) is tilted from perpendicular, causing it to precess and trace out a circle over about 26,000 years. The brightest star nearest the North Celestial ...

Overlay of a star-trail photograph, in which stars (white arcs) appear to rotate around the north celestial pole, and a numerical simulation of time-invariant polarization lines (dark lines) as ...

On Earth, the North Star is defined as the star toward which Earth’s north rotational pole points. Currently, that star is 2nd-magnitude Polaris, located in Ursa Minor — although it’s worth noting ...

Vahe Peroomian has, in the past, received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research in the field of space ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...