The constellation Taurus ... the Pleiades, slightly closer to the latter. This is a pretty binary that some observers call winter's Albireo (Beta Cygni), but not as bright. The two stars in ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...

The bluish Pleiades and yellowish Hyades are two visible star clusters in the Taurus constellation during the early-evening hours this month. On Jan. 9, the moon will appear to the right of the ...

There are countless fixed stars in the firmament, but Sei Shonagon (c.966-c.1025) named only the Pleiades star cluster and ...

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

Along with these seven bright suns, other constellations around Orion also display brilliant stars. In all, a dozen bright ...