The three conspicuous “belt stars” straddle the ... exactly follows your horizon, and the North Star gleams almost exactly straight overhead. Orion’s northern half will be seen riding ...

Like Earth's latitude, declination measures north and south ... The nebula can be found just south of the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. The shape of the nebula is forged by radiation from ...

It's close to Orion's belt, the Christian Science Monitor reports ... the winter in the southern part of the sky. No. The North Star is Polaris, and is actually much dimmer than a lot of ...

Face south on a northern winter night (or north on a southern ... Just south of Orion's belt hangs Orion's sword. Look closely with binoculars, and you’ll see that each star in the sword is ...

Raise your binoculars toward Orion’s Belt. The three equally spaced ... sits to its south and 6th-magnitude HD 36881 lies to its north. The southeastern star in Orion’s head, Phi2 (φ2 ...

Three more fainter faint stars lined up in a row lie below Orion’s Belt. That allegedly is Orion ... and Little Dipper near Polaris, the North Star. I’ll have more next week in Skywatch.

A new image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of Orion’s Belt, shows clouds ... from young stars while the star is still forming from the surrounding ...

Orion's belt ... is the fourth brightest star in the sky, and the brightest in the northern hemisphere. Then over to the right, is Polaris, otherwise known as the North Star.

it would easily be the brightest star in our sky. You’d even see Alnilam brightly in broad daylight. Alnitak, on the lower left side of Orion’s belt, is an Arabic name that means “the belt ...