Our January night sky offers up some really amazing sights and some that are better viewed from remote locations. What about something that is equally fascinating and visible from the brightly lit ...

I have a late-night assignment for night owls this week. If you can handle the late hour and the January cold, there's something really special waiting for you in the Rochester heavens that will make ...

You thought the brightest star is Polaris, right? Or one of the stars in Orion? Nope! Sirius—the “Dog Star”—never seems to get the recognition it deserves. It’s the brightest star in the night sky by ...

The Sirius star is also called the Dog star. The Dog star is a part of the Canis Majoris, or "Big Dog" constellation. Experts say the best sightings during winter, for those in Northern latitudes. The ...

Since 1986 I have had an affiliation with the Hayden Planetarium in New York. My "official" title there is "Associate and Guest Lecturer." Indeed, through all of these years I given scores of ...

The evening skies in March offer you a very obvious contrast between seasonal constellations. The plentiful and brilliant stars that make up winter constellations are obvious in the western half of ...

As summers go, this one hasn’t been unusually hot here in the Anza-Borrego Desert in Southern California, but it’s not over yet! We’ve still got a while before the onset of autumn and, hopefully, the ...

Sirius really shines this month. If you know where to look you can spot it just before sunset (more on that in a moment). Otherwise... Sirius is the brightest star in Canis Major (The Greater Dog) and ...

Fellow Durango Herald columnist Andrew Gulliford recently extolled the virtues of presidential dog ownership, and there is even a celestial precedent for having dogs. Orion, the great hunter in the ...