Summer is a good time to view the Big Dipper because it's high in the northern sky during the evening. The Big Dipper is not ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

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 ...

Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail ...

and you’ll come to two of the most famous star clusters in the sky, both in the constellation Taurus the Bull. The most obvious and smaller of the two is the Pleiades, aka the Seven Sisters or ...

Forty-seven representations from this era still stand. The narrative begins with the rise of asterisms, arrays of stars we might loosely consider “proto-constellations.” Many — but certainly ...

It consists of seven bright stars. In the northern hemisphere, you’ll be able to spot the zodiacal constellations Cancer, Gemini, Leo and Taurus, plus Auriga and Monoceros. February’s two ...