which look like very bright and steady silvery lights in the night sky with the unaided eye. But it can be a much different ...

Modest binoculars or a small telescope are all you need to see the Beehive Star Cluster. Appearing as a circular patch of ...

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year we can enjoy both of them at the same time in the early ...

June and July are the months when the Northern Hemisphere receives the most sunlight due to the Earth's tilt on its axis.

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, the third brightest and closest star system ...

I'm sure that most of us have noticed the "flickering" effect (as Ariana put it) of stars in our night sky. And we've all heard of the 19th century poem penned in 1806 by the British poet ...