Every night as you lie down to sleep there lies a sky just beyond your roof, full of millions of luminous spheres of plasma, or rather stars. “Sirius” — a star that lies in the Canis Major ...

One of the hallmark aspects of the winter Colorado sky is its superb array of bright stars and constellations. The crown jewel in this array is the brightest star in the entire night sky, the sapphire ...

Bad news, heat haters: The dog days of summer are not, as Florence Welch once sang, over or done. The dog days of summer, the period during which the star Sirius rises alongside the sun, run from July ...

As the Earth swings along in its orbit about the sun, the sun appears from Earth to move through the heavens, projecting itself onto the backdrop of stars and constellations that compose the zodiac.

"Dog Days are approaching; you must, therefore, make both hay and haste while the Sun shines, for when old Sirius takes command of the weather, he is such an unsteady, crazy dog, there is no ...

The night sky is such a collection of wonderful pictures, patterns and great stories. Ancient cultures used individual constellations as visual aids to spin tales of mythology and legends from ...

Anyone who enjoys gazing at the night sky probably has a few favorite star patterns they like to look for: The Big Dipper, for example, or Orion’s belt. But those familiar shapes that many of us ...

The Pottsville night sky is such a collection of wonderful pictures, patterns and great stories. Ancient cultures used individual constellations as visual aids to spin tales of mythology and legends ...