The hotties of summer are on the doorstep, and they begin next week and will remain with us until the middle of August. These ...

Stargazing in July hopefully promises warm nights in Wyoming. The highlight of July evenings is the prominent band of the ...

Hi, I'm Shannon Silverman, astrophysicist at the Clay center. And welcome to Almost Heavens. Here in West Virginia, we're just about halfway between the North Pole and the equator ...

In mythology, Canis Minor was placed by the banks of the river of the Milky Way, so it will never be thirsty. Canis Minor is very close to the constellation, Monoceros, the Unicorn.

The Winter Triangle, which is especially visible now, is made up of the stars Sirius, Procyon, and Betelgeuse, which are found within the constellations Canis Major, Canis Minor, and Orion ...

However, sharp-eyed skywatchers may catch the occasional 'sporadic' meteor flash across the sky on any particular night. (Thumbnail image is a simulation of the night sky on February 3, 2025, with ...

Since I can’t imagine him turning his back on the dogs (Canis Minor the Little Dog is to the east of Orion), I see the bottom rectangle as his head and the upper rectangle as his body.

Two meteor showers One of the best annual meteor showers is going on right now. Each year, the Geminids begin on the night of December 2, as Earth plunges into the stream of gritty debris left ...

Canis Minor has only two notable stars bright enough to be seen with the naked eye; alongside Procyon is Gomeisa, which shines at the dog’s neck.

Delatte asserted that the key to understanding everything was the two dogs. One has a halo or crown, and the other does not. This would make them the constellations Canis Minor and Canis Major, and ...

Canis Minor the Little Dog is admittedly much smaller. Generally drawn from just two stars, one of those is still quite bright: magnitude 0.4 Procyon, which stands nearly 26° above Sirius in the ...

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