In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky ...

Whenever you gaze upon the stars and constellations it’s easy to forget you’re seeing a three-dimensional picture. The ...

The winter sky has some brightly lit star patterns visible this month, including a triangle featuring Mars, making it ...

in Canis Major, the big dog. As the month goes on, the winter stars sweep westward; Venus drops toward the sun, rising later every morning; and the spring constellation Leo, the lion, becomes the ...

each belonging to its own constellation. The brightest is the bluish-white star Sirius (magnitude -1.45), in Canis Major the Big Dog; the brightest of all naked-eye stars. Next in brightness is ...

Whenever you gaze upon the stars and constellations, it’s easy to forget you’re seeing a three-dimensional picture over ...

Whenever you gaze upon the stars and constellations, it is easy to forget you are seeing a three-dimensional picture over ...