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The bright star Spica will appear to dance around Earth's moon on the night of May 9. Here's how to catch the celestial pair ...
It's certainly not the brightest star in ... beyond the smaller Leo Minor constellation, and is host to Regulus (labeled "1" below), its primary star. Gemini's head stars, Castor and Pollux ...
Jupiter on Saturday will shine at its brightest for the year ... As the name suggests, these shooting stars appear to stream from the Gemini constellation, but the meteors are actually bits ...
The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo is easy to pick out by spotting a large backward question mark known as the Sickle. The bright star ...
Life is full of trade-offs, and stargazing is no different. Nights are certainly warmer, but you have to stay up much later ...
To locate it, stretch an imaginary line from the 1st-magnitude star Pollux in the Gemini constellation to the similarly bright star Regulus in Leo. Your "beeline" will cut straight across the ...
On May 1, use binoculars to spot Mars close to this open star cluster. Cancer sits between the brighter zodiacal constellations Gemini and Leo, with Mars being the brightest object in this area. Leo ...
The Geminid shower flies from the Gemini constellation ... Years The Geminids' radiant point "nearly coincides with the bright star Castor in Gemini," according to EarthSky.org.
On April evenings, look to the west to spot the bright winter constellations ... Y-shape pattern of stars. Next, if you look in front of the Sickle of Leo — toward Gemini — you’ll see ...
A bright Moon dominates the sky, passing two bright stars as Juno reaches opposition and Mercury dips toward the horizon in ...
As May commences, Jupiter, resembling a luminous golden star within the constellation Taurus, shines high above the western ...