If you’ve been kind enough to have read my column for some time, you know how much I love the constellation Orion the Hunter. It’s the absolute king of the winter skies and one of my best non-human ...

W hat’s your first star memory? You probably observed the three luminaries of Orion’s Belt before anything else. Most kids notice it even before the Big Dipper or, in places Down Under, the Southern ...

If you’ve been kind enough to have read my column for some time, you know how much I love the constellation Orion the Hunter. It’s the absolute king of the winter skies and one of my best non-human ...

Anyone who enjoys gazing at the night sky probably has a few favorite star patterns they like to look for: The Big Dipper, for example, or Orion’s belt. But those familiar shapes that many of us ...

A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the ...

After the Big Dipper, probably the best known grouping of stars in the sky is the constellation Orion. Lying on the celestial equator, Orion is an "equal opportunity" constellation, visible from all ...

The constellation Orion is perhaps the best known pattern in the night sky, rivaling the Big Dipper in fame, and the month of December is a great time for observers to reacquaint themselves with this ...

Orion is certainly a favorite among the 88 constellations, probably second only to the star pattern of the Big Dipper (which is technically an “asterism” and part of a larger constellation, the Big ...

Without a doubt, my favorite constellation in the sky is Orion the Hunter, the absolute king of the nocturnal winter skies. I’m certainly not alone here. When I ask folks at the beginning of my ...

Some things in the astronomy hobby take a lot of effort and yield mixed results. You can drive a thousand miles to see an eclipse and get smacked with clouds during those precious minutes of totality.