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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

Our featured constellation is Cancer the crab, a faint, sparse group of stars tucked between the bright “backwards question mark” that outlines Leo’s ... with Gemini’s brightest stars ...

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 ...

you’ll find the spring constellations. You’ll spot Leo; it’s easily picked out by the “Sickle,” which looks like a large backward question mark punctuated by the bright star Regulus.