Soaring high in the eastern sky and almost overhead ataround midnight are the two stars marking the Hunting Dogs, known as CanesVenatici. Located about a third of the way from the end of the ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the diameter of our sun and 36.7 light years away. Boötes is chasing the Bears with ...

That really bright star you can see in the east is, in fact, Sirius. It’s the brightest star in the night sky—and that applies ... There are two reasons for this: Stars appear to twinkle ...

The familiar winter constellations fade toward the west, whilenew star patterns rise in the east and south ... in the spring sky. Its “pointer” stars, the two stars at the outer edge of ...

An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. After spending ... Venus is nicknamed “Morning Star” for when it’s visible before dawn in the east and “Evening ...

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and ... Meanwhile, Arcturus, the star of summer, is on the rise in the eastern sky. It’s by far the brightest evening star in the ...

We’ve got two very bright planets visible this month. The planet Venus dominates the morning sky as a dazzling bright light in the eastern sky before dawn. Don’t miss a spectacular pairing of ...

The two stars at the top of the cup are 10 degrees ... which can be found high in the eastern sky after sunset. It is made up of three bright stars that are easy to see. The three stars are ...

Not only do we have the brightest stars of the year during ... which happens every two years at opposition, when Mars is opposite the Sun in Earth’s sky. Mars was just at opposition on Dec ...

Two meteor showers will be gracing the night sky in December, including one that is known for producing lots of bright shooting stars. The first one on tap is the Geminid meteor shower ...

Jan. 31: Once again Mars and the two brightest stars in Gemini ... formed by the three of them in the East. In January, Mercury is low in the Southeast sky about an hour before sunrise and ...