As we approach the year’s end, the Ursid meteor shower offers a magical celestial celebration, under the cold, crisp skies of December. Coinciding beautifully with the winter solstice, this shower ...

POLARIS has long helped mariners find their way through our planet's seas and oceans by pointing the way north.

Shining in Ursa Minor with a magnitude of 2.1 ... it lives in the shadow of the most famous star in the whole sky: Polaris, the pole star. Polaris and Kochab are nearly the same brightness ...

It is stargazing turnover time. Night times are shrinking in Pottsville, and you must wait later into the evening to begin ...

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