The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

Perseid meteor shower will be most visible in the Northern Hemisphere from July 17 to August 24, with peak activity on August 12-13. Although the meteor shower can be seen all over the night sky, ...

Week of June 15-28, 2025 I've been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited the Southern ...

On the night of August 12, current predictions call for up to 80 shooting stars an hour visible from dark locations in the early evening, when viewers will be under a moonless sky.

A new map of the Milky Way has been released, giving astronomers a detailed look at the cold, dense gas floating throughout our galaxy from which stars are born. The APEX telescope in Chile ...

The Perseids and Southern Delta Aquarids converge this month for a spectacular show of shooting stars. This photo was taken during the Perseid meteor shower Aug. 13, 2016, outside Maupin, Oregon.

This impressive display, which is visible in the northern and parts of the southern hemisphere, will peak on the evening of 12 August, running into the early hours of 13 August.

The book opens with a brief account of the southern constellations, accompanied by a simple map, and this is followed by a series of chapters dealing with such subjects as “the ten brightest ...

But the fifth star in the Southern Cross ε (Epsilon) Crucis, which is magnitude 3.59, may be harder to spot in light polluted areas as it fades into the brighter sky.