The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

The Canis Majoris, pictured here, appears close to Orion's Belt in the night sky ... three stars, and Proxima Centauri is nearest, 4.25 light years away. Venus, pictured here, is the brightest ...

This stunning image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation where the two small planetary nebulas can be ...

Because of the strict mathematical definition now used, the brightest objects actually have negative magnitudes. Sirius, the most brilliant star in the night sky, has a magnitude of –1.46.

The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets ... well up in the southern and western sky is Jupiter. Mars, accompanied by its stellar companions ...

You can tell spring has officially begun in the Northern Hemisphere just by looking at the stars. Here's how to easily spot ...

When the sun sets on Friday, stargazers are about to have their best chance at seeing Mercury shine in the night sky in 2025. Visible to the naked eye, Mercury should be seen in the western sky at ...

Known casually as "The Hunter," it can be seen in the southern sky any clear evening from now through April. Orion's seven brightest stars make up the basic outline. The bright star, Betelgeuse ...

(NOTE: Planets will appear as bright stars in the sky ... Be sure to head outside on a clear evening, and look toward the southern sky to catch all seven planets before they disappear.