Venus, Jupiter, and Mars are strung across the western sky ... when it slips through the field of 4th-magnitude Xi1 (ξ1) Canis Majoris. On the 22nd and 26th, two loose clutches of stars provide ...

VY Canis Majoris is so large that if it replaced the Sun, the star would extend for hundreds of millions of miles, between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. NASA , ESA , and R. Humphreys ...

Mars follows at 3:01 a.m., and it will be ... Looking west one can see Sirius, or Alpha Canis Majoris (the Big Dog), the brightest star in the sky, moving towards the horizon; with the other ...

Look east-southeast before sunrise today and you’ll see a waning gibbous moon form a line of four with Jupiter, Saturn and Mars in front ... per hour during the Alpha Virginids, though if ...

The four brightest stars in Canis Major form a trapezoidal shape, consisting of Sirius (Alpha), Mirzam (Beta ... Binoculars will help spot it. Jupiter resembles a brilliant golden star ensconced ...

But there are some discoveries that boggle the mind, and for me, VY Canis Majoris tops the list ... its surface would stretch out beyond the orbit of Jupiter. The radius has been estimated ...

The planet takes some 2.95 years to orbit 47 Ursae Majoris and if it were located in our own solar system then it would be found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Can Earth-life exist here?

Jupiter and Mars are about to get up close and personal to one another. Look up to the sky early Wednesday morning and you'll see what astronomers call a planetary conjunction. This is what is ...

Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window narrows as the Sun sets later each day. Mars is past its best, but remains bright and high in the sky. Mercury ...

Mars and Jupiter also currently appear unusually close together in the night sky, in what’s known as a conjunction. They appeared closest during the early morning of August 14 and are now ...

The Dog star is a part of the Canis Majoris, or "Big Dog" constellation ... The closest star is part of the Alpha Centauri system, NASA says. It contains three stars, and Proxima Centauri is ...