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

Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky this week.

Jupiter will be the first starlike object you see in the evening after sunset with a brightness of –2.1 on the magnitude scale astronomers use, where smaller (or even negative) ...

The Giant Planet resembles a majestic golden star, and stands high in the southwest at nightfall during April; it sets around ...

On April evenings, look to the west to spot the bright winter constellations of Orion, Gemini, Taurus, Auriga, Canis Major and Canis Minor. They’ll be gone soon, so check them out while you can.

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

This star sits alone about 7° east of the midpoint of a line between the sky’s two brightest stars, Sirius (Alpha Canis ... cluster Collinder 121 in Canis Major. You’ll find it less than ...