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

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

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Butler sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year we ...

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.

The first full moon of spring, known as the “Pink Moon,” will appear in the sky this Saturday, April 12. It will reach its ...

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 ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and use just your eyes to make a giant figure out of some of the sky's brightest stars. The Winter Hexagon is a six-sided ...

The right triangle points west, and the westernmost (and brightest) star is the end ... to the left one sees Rigel, and directly above Rigel at about 60 degrees is Sirius, and if one turns to ...

To give you an idea of just how radiant Venus will be at that time, it will outshine Sirius, the brightest of all stars by nearly 20-fold. If you live in a rural location with no light pollution ...

outshining Jupiter twelve-fold and appearing nearly 20 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest of all stars. Mars continues to recede from Earth, so consequently the planet continues to ...