The shower's radiant is in the constellation Bootes. The easiest way to find it is tolook north for the Big Dipper. Then, follow the "arc" of the Big Dipper's handle across the sky to the red giant starArcturus, which anchors the bottom of Bootes. April: Lyrids The Lyrid meteor show...
Orion is the focal point of a stunning gathering of bright stars and constellations. The belt points down and to the left to a brilliant white star: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, leader of the constellationCanis Major the Great Dog. Sirius always dazzles, but the star especi...
Lyrids appear to come from an area near the constellation Lyra, the namesake for the meteor shower. When to watch the Lyrids Stars illuminate the sky on a clear night in Forest Hill on April 20, 2020 in London, England. (EDITORS NOTE: Multiple exposures were combined in camera to produce ...
located in the constellation of Canis Major, Betelgeuse, in the constellation of Orion, and Procyon, in the constellation of Canis Minor.11During summer, you will recognize the constellations of Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila. Their brightest stars, Vega, Deneb, and Altair form the Summer...
Constellation: Orion RA 05h 35m 17s Dec. −05° 23’ 28” M42 is the brightest nebula in the night sky and the only one that can be seen with the naked eye. With a casual glance below the three belt stars of Orion in a dark, light-pollution free sky, you’ll see this emission...
They’re in the zone. The habitable zone, that is: In a paper published today in Science, a team of astronomers announced that they’ve identified two planets orbiting a star not too unlike our own in a system in the Lyra constellation, 1,200 light years away. What makes their discovery...
which can create the false impression that meteors originate from many light-years away, when they're actually colliding with our planet. In North America, the radiant point of the Lyrids overlaps more or less with the star Vega in the constellation Lyra, which will rise just a little before...
Hurrying eastward, it will pass south of the brilliant blue-white star, Vega in the constellation of Lyra on the morning of May 8 and probably shining as bright as magnitude 4½. In the nights that follow, the comet will turn southeast and will race across the Milky Way in Cygnus (May...
Vega, also named Alpha Lyrae, is the brightest star of the constellation Lyra. You can find it at a right ascension of 18h 36m 56.19s and a declination of +38° 46' 58.8". It has an average apparent magnitude of +0.03 (with variations from -0.02 to +0.07) and is about 25 light ...
the various stars in each constellation with a diagram that shows their distance from one-another, and their spatial relationship to our solar system. Initially I was drawn to exploring the night sky purely along these spatial lines. But while I still see the value in that approach, threads ...