This famous recurrent nova has just leapt from 18th to 8th magnitude overnight. Astronomers worldwide were waiting.

Japanese amateur Koichi Itagaki, of recent comet fame, has just discovered a nova near Rigel on November 25, 2009.

On March 26, 2009, Korean amateur Dae-am Yi caught the small, greenish glow of a new comet with his Canon camera.

On the morning of Friday, Jan. 9, from 10:55 to 11:06 UT, asteroid 1963 Bezovec occults the 8.3-magnitude star HIP 64220 in a narrow path from Baja California through Texas to New England and Nova Scotia.

During January 2009 a faint star in Cepheus will fade, as it does every five or six years, when "something" goes in front of it.

Late Monday night, October 6-7, 2008, a tiny asteroid will enter Earth's atmosphere over Sudan, creating a spectacular explosion in the night sky.

An unexpected meteor burst was detected on the night of September 8-9. Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center is urging meteor watchers to see if the activity continues on the night of September 9-10.

During May and June 2008, this visitor may be dimly visible without a telescope — but only if you live in the Southern Hemisphere.

Just magnitude 9 when discovered on April 18, 2008, this nova in Sagittarius has brightened tenfold.

Two Japanese amateurs captured the new star on April 10, 2008, at a spot where their camera had recorded nothing just three days earlier.

On March 8, 2008, this asteroid or one of its two moons could make a faint naked-eye star vanish briefly from the sky.

A huge, remote asteroid could briefly blot out a faint star in Gemini on February 10-11, 2008.

On Nov. 14, 2007, a star in the constellation Puppis suddenly became visible in binoculars.

On Wednesday, October 24, 2007, this faint comet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter suddenly became a naked-eye "star."