According to a legend, more than two centuries ago, a famous Paris astronomer used to stand on one of the Seine bridges on nights when the variable star Algol was in eclipse, to point out this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While children dress up as ghosts and goblins for halloween and get their bags and orange plastic pumpkins filled with candy, ...

We call it the Demon Star because it winks ominously at us from the sky each evening. Well, OK, it doesn’t “wink,” but it does vary its brightness over time, and for much of history that was quite a ...

December brings the longest nights of the year, and with them some fine celestial sights. Far from the neighborhoods’ holiday and street lights, nebulae, star clusters and distant galaxies cross the ...

Algol makes up one of the "eyes" of Medusa's head that Perseus carries. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...