I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to Northern Hemisphere mid-northern ...

Look to Orion! Orion is a very interesting constellate for several reasons. It’s probably one of the easiest constellations to find in the winter skies, and the name of its second brightest star is ...

This one is rife with active star-formation in its surrounding nebula of gas and dust and is known to astronomers as M42, the Orion Nebula. It seems to have a large number of low-mass stars bound ...