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Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of January. Click on to see large image. Orion is a prominent set of stars visible during winter in the northern celestial hemisphere .
Winter constellations as seen from the tropics Flip book (158 images): Transit of Mars, Sun, Mercury, and Venus in 2017. The Winter Hexagon or Winter Circle/Oval is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere's celestial ...
The Winter Triangle is an astronomical asterism formed from three of the brightest stars in the winter sky. It is an imaginary isosceles triangle [a] drawn on the celestial sphere, with its defining vertices at Sirius, Betelgeuse, and Procyon, the primary stars in the three constellations of Canis Major, Orion, and Canis Minor, respectively. [1]
Sep. 11—Doesn't it seem as though Texas is made to star-gaze? From the Lone Star in our flag, to "The stars at night, are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas," we just can't seem to get ...
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the “mane” in finer detail. The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion ...
Taurus is a large and prominent constellation in the northern hemisphere's winter sky, between Aries to the west and Gemini to the east; to the north lies Perseus and Auriga, to the southeast Orion, to the south Eridanus, and to the southwest Cetus. In late November-early December, Taurus reaches opposition (furthest point from the Sun) and is ...
Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of February. Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere . In the second century, it was included in Ptolemy 's 48 constellations, and is counted among the 88 modern constellations .
At 65 degrees long and 40 degrees wide, the Winter Football covers almost half of the southern sky. 'Winter Football' constellation to be visible Super Bowl night. Here's where to look