Many people unfamiliar with the night sky can at least recognize the three stars of Orion’s Belt. Above and below the belt, Betelgeuse and Rigel are two of the brightest stars in the night sky.

Tomorrow night, Uranus will still ... Saturday, November 19 Orion the Hunter is one of the dominant constellations in the autumn and winter sky. His bow is starting to clear the horizon around ...

However, it seems that a passing cloud of gas obscured the light reaching Earth. That cloud has since moved and Betelgeuse is back to normal brightness. On Orion ... in the night sky is Sirius ...

Baker (1880-1962) once wrote of the Great Hunter or Celestial Warrior, Orion, that he shines "like ... apparently just reaching the prime of its life in the time span of a star and literally ...

Or one of the stars in Orion ... in the night sky by far, shining at a magnitude 1.4. That puts it behind only our Moon, Jupiter and Venus in terms of brightness. What even fewer people know ...

One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an ... The event should be visible to millions of people and it will also be livestreamed. The rare and fleeting ...

The numbers seen by any one observer tend to reach a maximum of around 20 per hour when conditions are clear and dark and the shower radiant point near the Orion ... the sky almost all night ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations and people take action ... an asterism known as Orion's belt.

During winter, it also appears brighter due to the position of the earth in the night sky as well as clearer high-pressure evenings in the Northern Hemisphere. In short, you may notice Orion the ...

When you look up at the night sky during winter, you might have noticed three stars, equidistant from one another in a row that shine brightly! These stars are the Orion’s Belt, which ...