The constellations help us find our way around the sky, breaking up the endless array of stars into more manageable and memorable chunks. In this article, I'll discuss five constellations I always ...

Last week in Starwatch I attempted to explain the tricks for finding Ursa Major, the Big Bear and Ursa Minor, the Little Bear in local skies. The Little Bear and the famous Little Dipper are one and ...

Last week I attempted to explain the tricks for finding Ursa Major, The Big Bear, and Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. What complicates things a bit is that the Little Bear and the famous Little Dipper ...

Have you ever noticed a constellation while driving at night and wondered what it was? Or looked up after dark and wondered what you were looking at? The night sky appears is constantly changing, ...

Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory. Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", ...