Spring is here, and with it a seasonal star formation is front and center in the night sky. Spring officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20 at 7:21 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Next tothe famous Sickle of Leo, Corvus is probably the most striking star pattern inthe spring southern sky for those living at mid-northern latitudes. It appearsas a small, moderately bright ...

While many other star patterns have changed their names over the millennia – Aries, the Ram, for instance was the Farm Labourer in ancient Mesopotamia – Taurus and Leo have kept their ancient ...

From Regulus, move 4.8° due north to magnitude 3.5 Eta (η) Leonis, the next star in the Sickle, then 4.3° northeast to reach magnitude 2.0 Gamma Leo. Jump another 3.7° north of this star to ...