The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only ...

It’s that time of year again—temperatures are climbing, days are glowing brighter, and you’re savoring every sunny moment outdoors. Yes, all signs point to summer approaching! Ree Drummond once said, ...

The Sirius star is also called the Dog star ... The Canis Majoris, pictured here, appears close to Orion's Belt in the night sky. No. The North Star, called Polaris, is actually much dimmer ...

Above the great sheath of stars that defines the ship’s keel is a ragged circle of stars. That’s Vela the Sails, though there ...

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Canopus, the ...

When the dwarf reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, the star spontaneously detonates in a fantastically bright thermonuclear blast. Nothing remains of the dwarf except debris. The Sirius system ...

But I believe there also are other stars gracing the winter sky that are just as beautiful--for instance Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, and the three stars in Orion’s Belt. While feeling ...

The two brightest nighttime stars visible in the Pottsville sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year ...