We're coming down to the home stretch of the spring season and this week, soon after nightfall, two constellations associated with the vernal season are reaching their highest point in the southern ...

The stars of spring glitter prominently as night falls on warm June evenings, and the first of the spring stars to emerge from the evening twilight is Arcturus, the night sky’s fourth brightest star, ...

Finding your way around the sky can be confusing. The moon helps point to bright planets and stars, but sometimes you need more. That's where asterisms can help. They're bright, easily recognizable ...

Signs of spring are currently all around us — and above us, if you know where to look. The Spring Triangle is a shape in the night sky that’s formed by a trio of bright stars: Regulus, Arcturus and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The constellation Leo contains one of the three stars of the Spring Triangle — an asterism that ...

Late-March seeing the stars of spring appear, bringing new shapes and constellation — and possibly an exploding star in the constellation Corona Borealis, the "Northern Crown." Spring started ...

The three layers of the sky: easy asterisms, complete constellations and the mythological figures they represent.Two asterism are shown, the Big Dipper and the Lozenge, which forms the head of Draco ...

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Two star patterns that can be found crossing the middle of the southern night sky soon after darkness falls on these late spring evenings are Bootes the Herdsman and Virgo the Maiden. Arcturus and ...

I have to admit that the constellations of spring, by and large, are no match for the wonderful constellations of winter, like Orion and the rest of his gang. The winter shiners show up after evening ...

April is a good month for getting reacquainted with such basics of the night skies like triangles and crosses because you can spend some additional time with the simpler things without exposing ...

The three layers of the sky: easy asterisms, complete constellations and the mythological figures they represent.Two asterism are shown, the Big Dipper and the Lozenge, which forms the head of Draco ...