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

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

Weather permitting, the International Space Station will be making some visible evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies to start off Spring. Its orbit may change, and I've only listed the best ...

But I believe there also are other stars gracing the winter sky that are just as beautiful--for instance Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, and the three stars in Orion’s Belt. While feeling ...

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

Orion's belt of three stars is visible even from city locations, as is Sirius, the "Dog Star" in Canis Major. Looking northward from Polaris and going towards the zenith, one will see Auriga ...

You can draw an imaginary arrow down and to the left from Orion’s three belt stars to locate Sirius in Canis major. (Illustration by the author) Astronomers say that of the thousands of stars visible ...