A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

A pair of stars doing a cosmic ... white dwarf and the two will merge into a single huge star. The resulting explosion will probably outshine every star in the night sky. It will be at least ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On any clear night, find the stars of the Big Dipper high in the northern sky. Trace the Big Dipper's handle of stars in a curve to Arcturus, a bright, reddish star above the eastern horizon. That ...