Summer’s brightest stars appear, echoing these Earth-bound lights, beginning around 9:20 p.m. through mid-month.

Explore the warped spiral galaxy NGC 3718 and its neighbor NGC 3729 — a dynamic duo of deep-sky oddities in the constellation ...

After a years-long legislative battle, optometrists will now be able to perform some procedures previously reserved for ...

It’s easy to see where Nick Payne got the title for this play. As with a constellation, the show is dazzling to watch and ...

As you stare at Minnesota’s new state constellation, Ursa Minor, i.e., the Little Dipper, and consider the vast universe, you ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

The Big Dipper is not a constellation itself, but an asterism within the constellation Ursa Major. It's visible throughout the year in the Northern Hemisphere, but it's most prominent during the ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was popularly known as the "Horse and Rider." ...

In his classic constellation guide, "The Stars — A New Way to See Them," author H.A. Rey sketched a cute cartoon on page 24 of a mother kangaroo and its joey above the caption: "The Dipper?

June 20, 2025, brings us the summer solstice. Supposedly, that means warmer weather has finally arrived in Wyoming. This month, if you go out after it gets dark, you will ...

There's more to this group of stars 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 Beall By Abigail Beall 14 May 2025 ...

It’s between these two famous dippers that the dragon winds its way across the northern sky. Look for its string of stars that begins nearly between the Big Dipper’s pointer stars and Polaris ...