Add this up and you’ve got “Sip Under the Stars,” a nighttime sky event being hosted at Chateau Chantal on Old Mission ...

If you go back 3,000 years, the north celestial pole lay very near the star Thuban in the constellation Draco the Dragon. Thuban is easily seen though a bit dimmer than today’s North Star.

"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

The North Star is the brightest star in the constellation known as the Little Dipper. It is so-called because of the special position it occupies relative to Earth's axis.

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5 – Facing north: use the Big Dipper/Plough to find constellation of the Little Dipper Officially called Ursa Minor (the “little bear”), the end of the tail of the “Little Dipper” is ...

Where to find The Wintermaker, Curly Tail, The Sacred Loop and more indigenous constellations in the night sky. Standing under the night skies in North America pointing out stars with Arabic names ...

The star HD 201834 lies within about 40′ of Mars’ North Celestial Pole. That’s about as far as Polaris is from Earth’s North Pole, but HD 201834 is nearly 40 times fainter — a tough ...

The North Star is the brightest star in the constellation known as the Little Dipper. It is so-called because of the special position it occupies relative to Earth's axis.