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Find the Summer Triangle
The Summer Triangle is made of 3 bright stars – Vega, Deneb and Altair – in 3 different constellations. Image via our friend Susan Gies Jensen in Odessa, Washington. June is here. In the Northern...
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Northern Cross: Backbone of Milky Way
Northern Cross, with bright star Deneb at the top of the Cross, on a November evening. Image via AstroBob. The Northern Cross is a clipped version of the constellation Cygnus the Swan, and is really an...
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Coathanger cluster: Looks like its name
The Coathanger cluster looks like its namesake. Image via Wikimedia Commons. In the evening from July until about November – if you have a dark sky – you can look within the famous Summer Triangle for...
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Teapot points to Milky Way center
The Teapot asterism in the constellation Sagittarius marks the direction in our sky to the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The green line marks the ecliptic, or sun’s path across our sky. And we’ve...
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Great Square of Pegasus gallops into autumn sky
The Great Square of Pegasus consists of 4 stars of nearly equal brightness: Scheat, Alpheratz, Markab and Algenib. The Great Square is an asterism within the constellation Pegasus. Great Square of...
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How to see the Southern Cross from the Northern Hemisphere
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Kannan A in Woodlands, Singapore, captured this photo of the Southern Cross on March 8, 2021. He wrote: “The Southern Cross constellation seen here in the morning...
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The Scorpion’s Crown and its stellar neighborhood
The Scorpion’s Crown consists of 3 stars: Acrab, Dschubba and Fang. They are, along with Antares and many other stars in the upper part of Scorpius, part of the Scorpius-Centaurus Association. Image...
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The Pleiades – or 7 Sisters – known around the world
EarthSky’s Marcy Curran introduces you to the Pleiades, or 7 Sisters, in this video. Come to know the legendary Pleiades star cluster The Pleiades star cluster is also famously known as the Seven...
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Meet the Winter Circle, aka the Winter Hexagon
The Winter Circle (or Winter Hexagon) isn’t a constellation. It’s an asterism, made of bright stars in the winter evening sky for the Northern Hemisphere (and summer sky for the Southern Hemisphere)....
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The Hyades star cluster: The Face of Taurus the Bull
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Jeremy Likness in Monroe, Washington, captured this view of the Hyades Star Cluster and the Pleiades on January 8, 2023. They are located in the constellation...
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