If you’ve been reading my column for a while, you know there are many kinds of critters represented among the ancient constellations. Today I’d like to share with you the story of one of the newer ...

Hydra the Water Snake unfurls across the southern sky during late March and April evenings. The long constellation begins just below the bright planet Jupiter and coils toward the southeast, crossing ...

PM, look over the southeastern horizon, and you'll see a reddish star sitting by itself, with only a faint string of dim stars intersecting it. It will be almost directly below the sitting lion ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy nicely ...

Now is a good time to see one of the largest yet least recognized constellations in the northern skies, because the moon will be new Friday and out of the late evening sky for a few days. Hydra the ...

Here's a trivia question: Which is the largest of all constellations? If you answered "Hydra," you know more about the night sky than you admit. At this time of year we can find Hydra, the water snake ...

Now is a good time to see one of the largest constellations in the sky and one of the few constellations that actually looks like what it is supposed to represent - Hydra the Water Snake. It sounds ...

With the bright moon now completely out of our early evening night skies this week, we can look to the south to trace one of the most extensive of all star patterns: the long and mostly faint ...

Last December, we toured the constellation Triangulum. Small in size, it can be fully explored in a single evening, much like a fisherman can cover a small pond in one day. In that December article, I ...

MAKE a fist with your hand, then hold it out to the sky at arm’s length. The width covered by your fist will be around 10 degrees. Now imagine 10 of these in a row. The biggest constellation in the ...