A true sign of summer for astronomers is the Summer Triangle. While not a constellation, this pattern of stars is quite large and bright enough to be seen even in skies with some light pollution, like ...

The Summer Triangle asterism, composed of Altair, Deneb, and Vega, is currently visible rising in the east after sunset in the Northern Hemisphere. Vega (magnitude 0), Deneb (magnitude 1.3), and ...

When you’re trying to make the stars your old friends and getting to know your way around the constellations, you need all the help you can get. Asterisms can be wonderful tools to get the job done.

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As we reach start of the summer season, I thought it would be important to share some of the secrets of the brighter stars of the summer season, as well as the details of these amazing stars. Many of ...

Asterisms are a group of stars with similar brightness that form a recognizable shape or pattern but don’t define a specific constellation. Among the Northern Hemisphere’s best-known asterisms are the ...

Well up in the eastern sky during the late-evening hours is the "Summer Triangle," not a constellation, but a very noteworthy star pattern of the summer sky consisting of three bright stars from three ...

Summer arrived astronomically in Everett at 3:51 a.m. Saturday, the moment of the annual summer solstice. When it’s finally dark enough for stargazing this time of year — and that’s after 10 p.m. for ...

July is often filled with heavenly sights — fireworks, lightning from the occasional thunderstorm and the full Buck Moon, which charges across the summer sky toward the end of the month. Skywatchers ...

The summer Milky Way overhead and through the Summer Triangle stars in July, looking up through trees in Banff National Park at Herbert Lake Deneb is at top left, Vega at top right, and Altair is at ...

The Summer Triangle is high in the sky after sunset this month for observers in the Northern Hemisphere, its component stars seemingly brighter than before, as they have risen out of the thick, murky ...