This is an exciting time to be watching the sky. Mars, though fading rapidly, is still brilliant. It’s that bright

Lots of exciting things are happening in the heavens. Jupiter, the brightest “star” in the sky, still dominates the west

As if reflecting April’s magical mutations, the sky also undergoes a radical makeover this month. The brilliant winter constellations now

Say you got a tax refund. Unlike most folks around here, whose winter heating bills have left them living in

For the next two weeks, Mars hovers at its closest to us. It’s sort of a big deal. While Venus

First, be sure to check out Mars this week. It has just gotten extremely bright, obvious and pale orange, while

By now, even the mass media will have reported that the other night – Wednesday night at 2:06 a.m. –

March – the only month that is also a verb – implies action. This year it overachieves, with snappy animation

The branch of astrophysics called cosmology – which is not about hairdressing and permanent waves, but the study of the