It's certainly not the brightest star in the sky ... Leo is directly beneath the Big Dipper, beyond the smaller Leo Minor constellation, and is host to Regulus (labeled "1" below), its primary ...

Sunset that day is at 7:32 p.m. The moon will be in the constellation Virgo but from ... that reaches Regulus, the brightest star in Leo. Going back to the Big Dipper, one can use the handle ...

Follow the arc of its handle to Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the sky, shining with an orange hue in the Boötes constellation above the east. Next, locate Vega, a brilliant blue-white ...

Above the great sheath of stars that defines the ship’s keel is a ragged circle of stars. That’s Vela the Sails, though there ...

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

We in North America call it the Big Dipper, but those in Great Britain know it as the Plough. Stargazers in Germany and Scandinavian countries recognize it as a wagon. Its “drinking gourd” shape even ...

Satellite IoT connectivity provider teams with global space infrastructure company to launch four new satellites in its ...

Above the belt is Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky ... Directly above it will be Denebola in Leo, a ...

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M16, also known as the Eagle Nebula, is a young star-forming region in the Serpens constellation, famously home to the "Pillars of Creation" captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 3627 is a ...

OneWeb is celebrating the completion of its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation, following the launch of 36 Airbus OneWeb Satellites using the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NewSpace ...

On April evenings, look to the west to spot the bright winter constellations of Orion, Gemini, Taurus, Auriga, Canis Major and Canis Minor. They’ll be gone soon, so check them out while you can.