A new meteor shower called May Camelopardalis is expected to peak in the early-morning hours on Saturday, May 24, with some forecasters predicting more than 200 meteors every hour. The shower, which ...

Stock 23, also known as Pazmino's Cluster, is a relatively inconspicuous open star cluster located in the constellation Camelopardalis. Initially categorized as an asterism, recent research confirms ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.

I confess I've never seen the giraffe constellation. I know the general area and have hunted galaxies and star clusters there but have yet to take the time to connect its faint stars into the ...

Figure 1: GALEX satellite image of the field of the dwarf nova Z Camelopardalis on 25 January 2004. Figure 4: Emission lines from the Z Cam nebulosity. Irregularities in the interstellar medium ...

You need to crane your neck up high the next clear evening, to see the Giraffe. Not unlike what you may have done at the zoo or game park, this celestial counterpart looks down at us in this position, ...

A new study reveals we still don’t know everything about giraffes—and what we don’t know could entirely change how conservationists protect them. Currently, giraffes are all know as species Giraffa ...