This is part of a series of articles written by members of the Westfield High School Space and Astronomy Club. Their mission is to share their enthusiasm for space and astronomical events with the ...

M45, the Pleiades star cluster, displaying its spectacular nebulosity (Photo by: Alan Dyer /VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) If you have ever looked at the night sky from the northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus is impossible to miss right now; the love planet is bright, radiant and stealing the spotlight in the western sky after dark ...

If you look just slightly away from Pleiades, you’ll be able to see it better. Why? It’s just science! Credit: Creators.com illustration The moon returns to our evening sky this week. It begins its ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — High above the horizon on crisp autumn nights, a shimmering cluster of blue-hued stars begins to appear. Known as the Pleiades, or the seven sisters, these stars have been ...

The moon over the next several days is a good pointer to Jupiter, the Pleiades and Taurus. Tonight the moon rises at 8:04 p.m. and will be 20 degrees above the eastern horizon by 10 p.m. It is in a ...

Visible to the unaided eye as a tiny congregation of stars due west of Taurus’ V-shaped head, the Pleiades (M45), also known as the Seven Sisters, is one of the sky’s premier open star clusters. Under ...

With the gibbous Moon in Leo, our best bet for observing other targets lies in the western sky this evening. Visible there are the two famous open clusters of Taurus: the Pleiades and Hyades. The ...

If you step outside after sunset, you might catch one of the season’s loveliest celestial meetups as dazzling Venus shimmers close to Uranus and the sparkling Pleiades star cluster ...

The sky is serving us even more magic tonight! If you step outside after sunset, you might catch one of the season’s loveliest celestial meetups as dazzling Venus shimmers close to Uranus and the ...