Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 degrees from the point directly overhead, known as the zenith. During the ...

November 2025 is a fantastic month for sky lovers. The nights are longer, the air is crisp, and the sky fills with cosmic ...

On this coming Thursday evening, after the Thanksgiving feast and the football games, take a walk under the stars weather ...

Hello everyone. We’re losing sight of some of our planets this week. Go out at 5:45 any morning this week and if you have a ...

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Auriga is often gets overshadowed by other winter constellations such as the mighty hunter Orion or the Zodiac star-patterns of Taurus and Gemini, Nigel Henbest writes. But it is worth paying attentio ...

Warm mid-August summer nights offer prime conditions for spotting three magnificent star clusters visible to northern-hemisphere skywatchers in the coming months. Star clusters are gravitationally ...

The iconic group of stars known as the Pleiades—that handful of bright points visible in the winter sky that has guided ...

The summer solstice occurs at this evening at 10:42 P.M. EDT. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, this marks the official beginning of the summer season. (For those south of the equator, of course, ...

The constellations march ever westward from month to month, with old ones disappearing into the sunset as new ones rise in the east. This is because the stars run like clockwork on a specific schedule ...