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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bright beads of cosmic dust highlight a shimmering nebula in a new photo of a region just north of the famous Orion's Belt in the constellation ... a massive young star that is estimated to ...

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 ...

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 ...