In addition, the ecliptic crosses through the constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Holder. In fact, the sun spends more time traversing through Ophiuchus than nearby Scorpius!

The most famous constellations (other than perhaps Orion and the Big Dipper) are the Zodiac constellations. These are twelve constellations that lie along the ecliptic, which is the apparent path ...

The other week, we talked about the signs of the zodiac (don’t worry, we’re not going into astrology again) and about the ecliptic. I feel like I sometimes throw around these terms and don’t ...

ALTHOUGH the Earth revolves around the Sun, from our point of view we see the Sun moving around the sky along an imaginary circle called the ecliptic once every 365.256 days. This is known as the ...

The ecliptic is inclined 23.5° to the celestial equator because this is the amount Earth’s rotation axis is tilted relative to its orbit. The Moon follows generally the same path, but with some ...

Any good astronomy app (optional) OVER the course of a year, the sun traces a path in the sky. This invisible line, called the ecliptic, isn’t created by the sun moving, but instead by Earth ...

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Every six months or so, the internet promptly panics when yet another story about “Ophiuchus, the 13th zodiac sign” goes viral. Apparently, the viral story goes, NASA has just discovered a ...

When the International Astronomical Union redrew the constellation boundaries in 1930, they put one corner of Cetus perilously close to the ecliptic – the path that the sun appears to follow in ...

There are two interesting meet-ups in space for skywatchers this week: close encounters between the moon, several planets and stars.