Anyone who enjoys gazing at the night sky probably has a few favorite star patterns they like to look for: The Big Dipper, for example, or Orion’s belt. But those familiar shapes that many of us ...

This week on Star Watch you will be able to see multiple planets in the night sky and the big and little dipper constellations. Friday, June 28, at 11 PM you will be able to see 2 planets in the sky.

Now that we're well into spring, you can easily see the Big Dipper at the start of the evening, suspended upside down, high above the northern horizon. It's nearly overhead. If you're facing north it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Look to the east 30 minutes before sunrise this morning, and ...

High to the northeast in this month’s early evening Colorado sky is perhaps the most famous and familiar asterism in all the heavens, the star group popularly known as the Big Dipper. Unlike so many ...

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Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere, always a good sign as it means rebirth, new life, new hope, something our world needs in these challenging times. Some find comfort to turn off the news for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. By now you will have heard of the “green comet”—comet C/2022 ...

If you sit back in a lawn chair facing northward after twilight on these late spring evenings and tilt your head toward the overhead zenith, the Big Dipper will leap out at you, hanging diagonally by ...

Now that we’re well into spring, you can easily see the Big Dipper at the start of the evening, suspended upside down, high above the northern horizon. It’s nearly overhead. If you’re facing north it ...