The night sky in early April looking south-southwest. . Courtesy of Nick Strobel Nick Strobel has been a professor at BC for 27 years and writes the semimonthly astronomy column for The Californian.

It is best seen in the spring night sky and covers a part of space large enough to fit about three full moons. Mars should be seen making its way through the star cluster with a pair of binoculars ...

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The spring night sky, however, offers us several examples of bright stars larger than the Sun thought to host planets. Let’s look at a few and use our imaginations to envision these secret worlds.

The star cluster, also known as Messier 44, is typically best seen during the spring night sky toward the constellation Cancer, according to NASA.The Beehive is made up of around 1,000 young stars ...

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A Spring Spectacle With A Twist. Rising in the eastern sky at dusk and setting in the west at dawn, this year’s Flower Moon won’t just light up the night—it will do so from an unusually ...