The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo is easy to pick out by spotting a large backward question mark known as the Sickle. The bright star ...

As May commences, Jupiter, resembling a luminous golden star within the constellation Taurus, shines high above the western ...

One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...

In the mid-May sky, for Northern Hemisphere observers ... Looking northwards, one can see Orion moving towards the northwestern horizon; Betelgeuse is about 33 degrees high.

Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

Hidden away in the darkest corners of Earth’s atmosphere, a faint green airglow quietly paints the night sky, far from the ...

Starting high in the Northern Hemisphere sky, I’ll be highlighting lots of stuff over the coming weeks and months. I’m going ...

The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is an odd reflection nebula surrounding a magnitude 7.4 star, SAO 19158, in the constellation ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...