North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern ...

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The Moon passes in front of several stars in the Pleiades cluster in an occultation this morning, best seen from North and Central America. Both the view and its timing are heavily location dependent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus is impossible to miss right now; the love planet is bright, radiant and stealing the spotlight in the western sky after dark ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 26: Mercury closes in on Jupiter Mars now lies in Taurus, visible in the early-morning sky before sunrise. Today, the ...

The Greeks have named this particular cluster of stars the Pleiades, which means many. They're in the constellation of Taurus ...

Through binoculars or a low-power telescope view (try your finder scope), many more stars begin to appear. The Pleiades stretches about 110’ on the sky — about the width of three and a half Full Moons ...

The moon will sweep close to the Pleiades open star cluster in the early morning hours of Aug. 16-17, with the ice giant Uranus lurking unseen nearby. Look to the eastern horizon an hour after ...

The Pleiades themselves are famously two things: a star cluster with seven prominent bodies, and an old Greek myth. This piece was originally composed as a commission for a group of Davis thought to ...

Before June comes to a close, the red planet (Mars) will cruise past the compact cluster of blue-white stars tucked inside ...