Sky Tonight—March 8, The Summer Triangle, a signpost for all seasons
Presently, the Summer Triangle shines in the eastern sky at and before dawn.
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Presently, the Summer Triangle shines in the eastern sky at and before dawn.
In late June – around the June 21 solstice – the Summer Triangle pops out in the east as darkness falls and shines all night long.
Even as autumn is beginning, we still have several months to watch the large asterism known as the Summer Triangle. T
The three stars of the Summer Triangle shine so wonderfully brilliantly that you can see them from light-polluted cities or on a moonlit night.
A moonless sky means this is a good time to get out into the country for a look at the summer Milky Way: the edgewise view into our own galaxy.
The Great Rift of the Summer Milky Way passes through the Summer Triangle, between the stars Vega and Altair.
That is Altair, the brightest star in the constellation Aquila the Eagle, and the second brightest star in the Summer Triangle.
On the other hand, asterisms are whatever you want them to be. They are just patterns on the sky’s dome. You can also make up your own asterisms, in much…
The disk of our Milky Way is shaped like a pancake. On May evenings, the plane of the pancake-shaped galactic disk coincides with the plane of the horizon
As seen from our northern temperate latitudes, the three brilliant stars of the Summer Triangle – Vega, Deneb and Altair – are out for at least part of the night…