You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s ...

A triple star system is orbited by two additional stars ... Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, Rigel and Saiph. If Alnilam is a humongous beast, then bright orange Betelgeuse, the right shoulder of Orion ...

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

Greetings everyone and welcome to Guam’s beautiful skies! There will be a bright moon in our evening sky this week since the ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

This opens a window into the jovian system, showing us that Io orbits ... Moving counterclockwise up into Orion, the next star in the Hexagon is Rigel, Orion’s magnitude 0.2 right knee (as ...

Its outer envelope of hot gasses would extend into our solar system’s asteroid belt and perhaps beyond ... The Hunter’s left foot is marked by the blue-giant star called Rigel. Rigel is very young, ...