This week is the best time in May to view the night sky. Here's everything you can see during May's dark skies, from an upside-down bear to some of the oldest stars in the universe.

The bright constellations of winter have departed in the west, while the stars of spring are climbing the eastern and ...

Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail ...

Then, locate the bright star Phecda in the bowl of the Big Dipper, along with the magnitude +3.33 star Coxa (also known as Chertan, or Theta Leonis) in the constellation Leo. Roughly half way ...

Of all the constellations that we see through the year over Butler, Virgo the Virgin is the second largest. The only problem ...

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

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It was great fun seeing the stars ... in the real night sky! One of my favorite star groupings of springtime was the Big Dipper. This group of seven stars is part of a larger constellation known ...

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The Three Leaps of the Gazelle are pairs of stars representing hoofprints below the constellation Ursa Major. | Credit: Starry Night ... locate the Big Dipper, which is high in the sky in late ...