With winter now underway and the Geminid meteor shower over, it is a great time to explore the wonders of the constellation Orion as it appears high in the southeastern sky around 8 p.m. Arizona time.

Last week in Starwatch I tried to cover all of the astronomical treasures of the constellation Orion proudly shining in the southeastern sky. It's loaded with many celestial jewels, such as the red ...

The Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters," is a bright, bluish star cluster located near the constellation Taurus, visible to the ...

What we celebrate today as Halloween has its beginnings in a thousands-of-years old Celtic tradition based on the Seven ...

The peak of the2025 Orionid meteor shower coincides with the New Moon, meaning you should be able to see even faint meteors ...

Orion the Hunter is the king of the constellations, as far as I’m concerned. I’m far from the only one with that opinion. In the minds and imaginations of many, many stargazers all over the world, ...

Last month marks my 20th year writing the Night Sky column for Space.com. It is difficult for me to believe that in this forum I have penned over a thousand columns on a variety of different subjects ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Or is it a drone? It might actually be Orion’s Belt. On Friday, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan took to his X account, writing that he “personally witnessed (and videoed) ...

In this illustrated and comprehensive guide, we point our eyes skyward towards the celestial heavens to explore the star constellations in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Star ...

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There are 88 of them… patterns in the stars named long ago that supposedly depict people, animals and objects. They’re called constellations. Most folks who see them for the first time conclude they ...