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constellations

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deep sky objects

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planets and events

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tonight's sky

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soon after sunset look above the western

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there bright venus brings the winter day

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a telescope reveals its moon-like phases

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higher up in the southwest jupiter king

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a telescope shows dark bands cutting

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the winter sky is filled with brilliant

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an ancient constellation auriga was

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pictured as a goat herder by the greeks

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and romans

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auriga is a beautiful circlet of jeweled

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capella the sixth brightest star in the

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sky is a double star

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the two stars are yellow stars like our

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own sun but they are about 10 times

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near auriga is the large constellation

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in greek legend this group of stars

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represented zeus in the disguise of a

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his eye is the orange aldebaran

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a red giant star nearing the end of its

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the bull's v-shaped head is created by

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the hyades a beautiful cluster of stars

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the pleiades star cluster lies near the

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large and bright this star cluster is

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the best known in the sky and is often

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called the seven sisters

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the unaided eye can see just six or

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seven stars

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but the pleiades cluster contains over

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binoculars showcase the cluster at its

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the stars in this stellar swarm are hot

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and young

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a dusty cloud through which their

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mars rises in the east around midnight

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use a telescope to look for faint

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following mars through the sky is saturn

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the planet's majestic rings appear in

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the quadranted meteor shower peaks on

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those who brave the cold might see 40

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the night sky is always a celestial

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showcase