It's all worth it though. On a clear night, the northern hemisphere night sky is ablaze with a display of moons, planets, stars, galaxies, star clusters and other phenomena.

PASADENA, Calif.-Astronomers have discovered a narrow stream of stars extending at least 45 degrees across the northern sky. The stream is about 76,000 light-years distant from Earth and forms a ...

It’s between these two famous dippers that the dragon winds its way across the northern sky. Look for its string of stars that begins nearly between the Big Dipper’s pointer stars and Polaris.

In early evening in late December, say around 7 p.m., look due north. As seen from mid-northern latitudes, first see the five stars making the “M” of Cassiopeia, high up. This is easy to spot.

Every star labeled on this map of Hercules, Boötes, and Ursa Major is a double star, worth exploring with a small telescope. Some, like Mizar in the Dipper's handle, can be split with the naked eye.

There's so many star clusters and nebulae, clouds of gas and dust that are forming stars." O'Donoghue spoke with Northern Light co-hosts Monica Sandreczki and Catherine Wheeler. The Milky Way.

While it won’t set the sky ablaze, it’s a special opportunity to see a rare event that’s usually difficult to predict in advance. The star in question is T Coronae Borealis (T CrB ...

Standing almost directly overhead around midnight on July nights is the brilliant bluish-white star, Vega, in the constellation of Lyra, the Harp. It's the fifth brightest star in the entire sky ...

Today, Venus is referred to as the "Christmas Star" because it will be the brightest object in the sky, besides the moon and sun, Throop said.