Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

A rare grand celestial reunion is happening through February, with the moon shining close to Uranus on Wednesday, February 5.

The Moon and Jupiter will meet in the southwest sky at around 9.00pm GMT, where Jupiter will be shining bright to the left of the Moon. At the same time tomorrow evening (February 6), the pair will ...

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

Orion the Hunter and Taurus the Bull face off in the southern sky in early February as soon as it gets dark. Taurus is home to two of the brightest star clusters, the Pleiades and Hyades. Both are ...

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious ...

The best binoculars with cameras don't just bring the faraway closer; they let you capture it too. Imagine you've spotted a rare bird and want to take a photograph as a register of the sighting.

It's an Art Moderne astronomical observatory from the 1930s — a little rusty but almost completely intact. A valuable collection of vintage scientific equipment, including telescopes ...

Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don’t appear as ‘bright planets’ [meaning you need a telescope or binoculars to see them ... you should be able to find Jupiter above the Orion ...

Other researchers included Steve Ertel (Steward Observatory and Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA), Gerd Weigelt (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, ...