Our star chart is designed to get you out learning the night sky within a matter of moments ... as that's where northern-hemisphere observers see the ecliptic, where the planets prowl.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Explore the night sky from anywhere in ... This project asks people in the Southern Hemisphere to search for Sagittarius the archer, while people living in the Northern Hemisphere will try to ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

The northern lights, known as the aurora borealis, are a spectacular natural light show visible at certain times of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. They occur when electrically charged ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Joining in late evening ... Northern Hemisphere observers. Located in Taurus, Jupiter climbs to 70° altitude at local midnight for mid-latitude U.S. observers. At magnitude –2.8, it dominates a ...

The next Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere ... path through the sky resulting in the day of the year with the least sunlight and therefore, the longest night. In the lead-up to the ...