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The Pleiades cluster is often called the Seven Sisters, though most people can only see six Pleiades stars with the unaided eye. These six little starlets create the tiny dipper-shaped…
The Great Square of Pegasus sparkles over your eastern horizon at early to mid evening.
In a few more days, Venus and Mars will team up with the star Spica to stage this year’s closest celestial trio – three heavenly bodies fitting within a circle…
Ophiuchus is sometimes called the 13th or “forgotten” constellation of the Zodiac.
Currently, both the moon and planet are in the constellation of Pisces the Fish. They are not far from the circular pattern of stars known as The Circlet in Pisces.
In fact, astronomers of past centuries were originally able to rank the planets by distance based on the speed of their motions in front of the fixed stars.
Orion will be visible in the evening by winter, but right now the Hunter lords over the southeastern sky at dawn’s first light.
The August 2010 full moon is the smallest, farthest full moon of the year.
Shining at magnitude -4.4, Venus easily pierces the northern hemisphere’s thick summer air.
Look for the three brilliant stars of the Summer Triangle high above the moon tonight.