I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Any night now, the astrophysicists tell us, a new star will appear in the night sky—about as bright as the North Star—the ...

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Probably the most familiar is the Big Dipper, seven bright stars within the northern constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. This figure is deeply immersed in our collective psyche and often ...

T Corona Borealis, commonly known as the "blaze star," may flare up and be visible to the naked eye on Earth for the first ...

Archer or teapot? We'll distinguish between the two, as this pattern of stars now is visible in the southern sky at nightfall.

Corona Borealis is not a prominent constellation. It’s nestled above Bootes and to the west of Ursa Major, home to the Big Dipper, in northern skies. To locate the constellation, look due west ...

Cassiopeia circles in the north opposite to the Big Dipper, and so near to the pole that, like the Dipper, she too, never goes below the horizons of mid-northern latitudes. Want to see the ...

Skywatchers might soon witness a rare celestial event: the potential flare-up of T Corona Borealis, commonly known as the ...

Alkaid is the star at the very end of the Big Dipper’s curved handle. Credit: Ed Suominen (Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) Forming part of the constellation Ursa Major, the asterism known to some as the ...

Fuli Gemstones has unveiled its latest innovation, the Beidou gemstone cut inspired by the Big Dipper and the stars in the ...