October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing

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The Ghoul Located within the constellation Perseus lies a star called Algol, also known as ‘Demon Star’ or ‘The Ghoul’. You can spot this star during the autumn months, along with Cassiopeia and Andromeda in the northeastern sky, beginning after 9 PM.

In Greek mythology, this star represents the ‘blinking eye’ of the gorgon Medusa. 2 Min Read October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust carved out by a massive star. NASA is a space exploration and public company founded in 1958.

Light curve of the eclipsing binary star Algol recorded by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), stored on NASA’s Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). NASA/Wikipedia Commons Algol is a triple-star system, with two of the three stars orbiting one another.