All winter long the great constellation Orion the Hunter has roamed our skies, with its bright belt of three stars in nearly ...

The Big and Little Dippers are asterisms, for example, though their stars are part of the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. The Winter Triangle, which is especially visible now ...

There may be 88 official constellations, but there are many more unofficial asterisms — shapes of stars — that are ... One such is the Winter Triangle — formed by Sirius, Betelgeuse and ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Instead, we are seeing is our galaxy’s edge, a view dominated by some very bright stars. Winter’s night sky features some of our most iconic constellations, such as Orion, Gemini, Taurus and ...

This seems to hasten the departure of winter’s bright star patterns. Winter’s signature constellation, Orion, begins spring in the southwestern sky but is still prominent as twilight fades to ...

This recurrent nova, located approximately 3,000 light-years away in the constellation ... the failure of the star to suddenly become visible to the naked eye during winter — for the first ...

This event signals the start of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, a transition that also manifests in our evening skies as winter constellations start to vanish.

In the early part of the month, look to the west at nightfall for the constellation Auriga, the charioteer, a polygon of stars set off by brilliant Capella.

We’ll show you how to spot stars, planets, galaxies and more with the naked eye. Take our winter tour that features August constellations, or our summer tour designed for January, February or March.