As we reach midpoint of the summer season, I thought it would be important to share some of the secrets of the brighter stars of the summer season, as well as the details of these amazing stars! Many ...

NASA has selected Altair as the name of the lunar lander the Constellation Program will use to put humans on the moon. Image: Three crew members work in the area of their lunar lander on the lunar ...

NASA has released a draft request for proposals, or RFP, to seek industry support for the design of its Altair lunar lander vehicle, part of NASA’s Constellation Program. Altair will deliver four ...

The official first day of summer isn’t until June 20, but already, there’s a sure stellar sign of summer on the rise. When the night sky finally darkens around 10:30, the “Summer Triangle” emerges in ...

Well up in the eastern sky during the late-evening hours is the "Summer Triangle," not a constellation, but a very noteworthy star pattern of the summer sky consisting of three bright stars from three ...

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Altair is the final stop on our trip around the Summer Triangle! The last star in the asterism to rise for Northern Hemisphere observers before summer begins, brilliant Altair is high overhead at ...

Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode 6, she tells us about some summer constellations.