A steady stream of “shooting stars” expected to be visible in the night sky this weekend ... named after the constellation Orion and streak through the sky at about 41 miles per second.

The Orionid meteor shower is annual show of celestial debris from Halley’s Comet as it rips through space. The meteors, sometimes referred to as shooting stars, originate from the comet, burning up as ...

A great example of such an app is Stellarium—a planetarium program allowing you to view the night sky from ... Let's use ...

The best time to view the Taurid meteor shower is around midnight when the shower's radiant (the spot in the sky from which ...

November’s night sky offers Venus and a crescent moon shining together as five planets emerge after sunset and a “Super ...

You’ll need a low view to the southwestern horizon ... that is at its best this month is Orion. In fact, its very presence in the southern night sky is a sure sign that we’re now in the ...

Taurids may bring some fireballs into view. These fireballs are meteorites that ... the twilight and is just below the ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

Located northeast of the Orion constellation, Taurus can be identified by finding the bright red star known as Aldebaran and ...

For a few seconds on Monday night, star gazers ... watch an asteroid block their view of the star Betelgeuse, which brightly shines red in the constellation Orion. The event, called an occultation ...

Watch for the brightest planets in the sky throughout the month, as well.

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