Venus is a bright morning star dominating the predawn sky at magnitude –4.2. Today, the blazing planet moves from Aries into ...

The Pleiades are an asterism, or pattern of stars, as well as an open star cluster, made up of more than 1,000 stars. They are located in the constellation Taurus and are about 410 light-years ...

That’s right; just look around any parking lot for a Subaru and examine its emblem!. Below the Pleiades lies the constellation of Taurus, the bull, on whose back this cluster is said to ride ...

Taurus is one of the equatorial constellations (one of 15), and is located in the first quadrant of the northern hemisphere (NQ1). It can be seen at coordinates +90 and -65 degrees.

Taurus is the sixth largest of the Zodiac constellations and the 17th largest constellation overall, occupying around 797.2 square degrees or 1.9% of the sky over Earth, according to Astronomy ...

Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the sun, at 2:54 p.m. on July 3. At that moment we’ll be 94.5 million miles from our parent star.

Taurus is the home of two of the nearest open star clusters, the Hyades and the Pleiades. The Hyades are easy to view with the naked eye on a dark moonless night. Taurus looks like this in the ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

Skywatchers in central Wisconsin can expect a stunning week ahead, with planetary pairings, moon phases and celestial ...

Taurus and the Pleiades star cluster were even found in a cave painting at Lascaux, France, which dates back to 15000 B.C. The constellation and Pleiades are known as the bull and the seven sisters.