The winter sky has some brightly lit star patterns visible this month, including a triangle featuring Mars, making it ...
We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that moment marking the midway point between December's winter solstice and March's vernal equinox. That moment took place at 4:11 p.m.
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...
The second-brightest object in the night sky is about to reach its brightest point this year. Venus, the second planet from the sun and Earth’s neighbor, is typically the first star seen ...
Two planets stand side by side as the evening twilight continues to delight and colorful stars shine in the sky this week.
If you turn 90 degrees to your right and face south, measure two fist-widths up from the horizon and two fist-widths to the left and you’ll find Canopus, the sky’s 2nd brightest star and the ...