In reality, two planets will be hanging out very close to the moon on April 25, but they won’t form a smiley face. Venus and ...

Leo is directly beneath the Big Dipper, beyond the smaller Leo Minor constellation, and is host to Regulus (labeled "1" below), its primary star. Gemini's head stars, Castor and Pollux (labeled "2 ...

At this moment, it forms a conspicuous triangle with two nearby bright stars, Castor and Pollux, in the constellation Gemini. To echo H.A. Rey in his classic "The Stars — A New Way to See Them ...

The golden star Pollux of Gemini also sits near Castor. It can be fun to star spot, but not essential for locating the meteors. Whether you're facing the constellation or have your back towards it ...

The Pollux-Mars and Castor-Mars sides of the Triangle measure ... in the adjacent zodiacal constellation of Cancer the Crab; only a couple of degrees from the famous Beehive star cluster.

Leo — A regal constellation prowling across the spring sky 7. Castor — One of the bright twin stars of Gemini, gleaming like a celestial jewel 8. Aurora — Nature's light show dancing across ...

The Winter Circle (or Winter Hexagon) isn’t a constellation. It is an asterism, made of bright stars in the winter evening ...

The two bright stars below Mars are Castor and Pollux ... find at least the locations of some of those really dim southern constellations. Face due south and look straight up and you’ll easily ...