Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a gorgeous view of the 'Sunflower Galaxy' (Messier 63) from his backyard ...

Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail Beall ...

As spring advances, the night sky undergoes a quiet transformation. The familiar winter constellations fade toward the west, ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the diameter of our sun and 36.7 light years away. Boötes is chasing the Bears with ...

This week is the best time in May to view the night sky. Here's everything you can see during May's dark skies, from an ...

You would think the most famous star pattern known would rate the title of constellation, but instead, it’s what astronomers call an asterism. (Mike Lynch) The Big Dipper, my favorite asterism ...

The stars of the 'Big Dipper' asterism in the constellation Ursa Major. | Credit: Luigi Chiesa/Wikimedia Commons/C-BY-SA Continue this line outwards for the same distance that it took to cross the ...

Spica, a star in Virgo, is called “Shinjuboshi” (Pearl star) in Japanese. The Big Dipper asterism is known as “Hishakuboshi” (Dipper star). Hoei Nojiri (1885-1977), a Japanese scholar of ...