The Summer Triangle, a striking pattern formed by the stars Vega, Deneb, and Altair, can be easily spotted in November.

The official first day of summer isn’t until June 20, but already, there’s a sure stellar sign of summer on the rise. When the night sky finally darkens around 10:30, the “Summer Triangle” emerges in ...

While July wraps up, skywatchers will have a reason to rejoice as time marches on in August with a series of sky events to keep an eye on. To kick off the month, the Perseid meteor showers are active.

The Summer Triangle asterism, composed of Altair, Deneb, and Vega, is currently visible rising in the east after sunset in the Northern Hemisphere. Vega (magnitude 0), Deneb (magnitude 1.3), and ...

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is a frustrating time for many amateur astronomers. The nights never get dark enough to easily see the faint, fuzzy galaxies and nebulae they enjoy looking at through ...

If you follow the moon tonight with binoculars or a small telescope as it rises above the mountains, I guarantee you will have a delightful time watching it slide past the distant mountain peaks.

Gaze at the night sky enough, and you’ll begin to find all kinds of geometric patterns among the stars. Points are easy; so are lines connecting two stars. Another easy pattern is a triangle, since ...

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

Summer is the season to become a stargazer. Whether you’re a kid or an adult, this is the time to lie back in the grass, get out of town, take a vacation to the countryside to experience a truly dark ...

Many of the stars and star groupings we find in our nighttime sky have names and stories that originated in olden times. Most that we know of today come from ancient Arabic, Greek or Roman cultures, ...

The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant than it does in the winter? For stargazers and astrophotographers in the northern hemisphere, ...