The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

Astronomers say that of the thousands of stars visible to us in the northern hemisphere, Sirius is the brightest of them all.

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

Betelgeuse is easy to recognize, standing above the leftmost star in Orion’s Belt in this orientation ... It currently sits 1.5° north of NGC 1802, a small, faint open cluster.

You can tell spring has officially begun in the Northern Hemisphere just by looking at the stars. Here's how to easily spot ...

It's easy to get lost in a clear night sky full of stars. It can feel like a random mess of lights without a little guidance.

Orion's belt of three stars is visible even from ... the charioteer, and its brightest star Capella. Facing north looking slightly below Capella and to the left one sees Perseus, the legendary ...

Through a medium-sized telescope, you can see its surface features, including its north pole ... and perfect straight line. Below the belt are three faint stars that form the Orion’s Sword. The middle ...

This dipper shape is a great guide for finding the North Star ... nebulas and star clusters. Best seen from Portugal in the winter, and named after a hunter in Greek mythology, Orion features ...

That is Orion’s Belt. You may also note a couple stars in a hazy area below the belt, which is the Orion Nebula, the closest and most active area of star formation in the Milky Way. Lepus the Hare is ...