The nights following Sept. 12 are a great time to observe the shifting play of light over the vast Montes Apenninus mountain ...

Ice giant Uranus is in Taurus, floating near the Pleiades star cluster and easy to locate in the early-morning sky.

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 ...

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 ...

At the last night sky program, the telescope captured a beautiful image of Pleiades. This little fuzzy open star cluster sits out in front of the constellations of Orion and Taurus. Orion can be found ...

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 ...

As we move deeper into the skies of autumn, we come across the zodiac sign of Taurus the Bull. One of the oldest of the traditional zodiac signs, Taurus has been listed in ancient chronicles as early ...

A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will be by far the brightest ...

Since last autumn, one of the marquee pleasures of the night sky has been gracing stargazers. It’s the Pleiades star cluster, easily seen with just your God-given eyes, even in light-polluted heavens.