On clear winter nights, three bright points cut a straight line through the southern sky, outshining the chill and, in raw ...

The three blue supergiants forming Orion’s Belt are prominent winter sky markers, visible worldwide and aligned along the Milky Way, according to Space.com.

Collectively they have been known, among other things, as the Three Kings, the Three Marys and the String of Pearls. Orion’s belt is making its annual return to our early evening sky. From east to ...

This column is my third and final installment about the constellation Orion the Hunter's celestial treasures, the best the evening skies have to offer, at least in this stargazer's opinion. This week, ...

One of the most famous and recognizable asterisms of the night sky is the Belt of Orion, a tight belt of three bright stars (Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka) in the constellation of Orion, which has given ...

The stars of Orion’s Belt are some of the brightest and most captivating sights in our night sky, offering an unparalleled ...

On Earth, we can look out in the sky and see clouds in our atmosphere. They are mostly made of water molecules in a gaseous state, and can be as large as a continent. They orbit the earth as we are ...

If you’ve been kind enough to have read my column for some time, you know how much I love the constellation Orion the Hunter. It’s the absolute king of the winter skies and one of my best non-human ...