A bright moon will make it harder than usual to see the meteors as they streak across the night sky. But experts say it’s ...

Skywatchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction saw the start of an upcoming "planet parade" in the eastern sky. Here's ...

Perseid Meteor Shower appears in the night skies of August, August 12 and 13, 1025 are the best nights to see the streaks ...

Constellation origin: Cassiopeia, the queen of Ethiopia, was very vain and bragged she was more beautiful than the Nereids, 50 sea nymphs fathered by the Titan Nereus.

Diagram of the constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus (SUMBMITTED BY MIKE LYNCH) As soon as twilight fades, look for those lovers together in the high northwestern sky.

Cassiopeia, like Ursa Major, is a far northern, circumpolar constellation. It never sets as seen from latitudes north of about 30 degrees, which includes nearly all of the United States and Canada ...

The other two are Andromeda the Princess, seen in the autumn and winter, and Cassiopeia the Queen, seen all year round in the northern sky. Cassiopeia is a really bright constellation that looks ...

Cassiopeia looks like a chair or stretched W or M depending on its orientation in the sky. Tonight it will look like a stretched M. Once found, the constellation is easy to recognize in the future.

Because we live on a spherical planet, we can only see part of the sky. If we look toward the celestial pole — north or south, depending on where we live — we see the same constellations all year ...

Turning our gaze northward, we find the signature “W” shape of the constellation Cassiopeia hanging high in the northeast; the “W” opens up toward Polaris, the north star.