On Friday, Nov. 21, Uranus will lie at opposition — directly opposite the sun — making it visible in a clear night sky. Credit: Creators.com illustration Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, ...

The final supermoon of 2025 arrives this week, and it's time for you to get ready for a night sky spectacle you won’t want to miss! On 3 December 2025, the nearly full Moon, known as the Cold Moon, ...

Dave Eicher, Editor Emeritus of *Astronomy* magazine, advises observers to watch for the Moon passing near the Pleiades star cluster on the evening of December 3. The Pleiades, also known as M45 and ...

Just about everybody knows the Pleiades star cluster, also called the Seven Sisters. They represent the daughters of the ancient Greek gods Atlas and Pleione. After Orion's Belt and the Big Dipper, it ...

I’ve written about the Pleiades star cluster before (“Orion and the Pleiades,” Jan. 12, 2023), in which I focused on the ancient Greek myth of the hunter Orion endlessly pursuing Mom, Dad and seven ...

Names are the life time identity of an individual in every society. Baby names have huge choices of names due to the vastness of all language. Parents can go through this webpage for latest baby names ...

Astronomers Uncover the Vast Greater Pleiades Complex with 3,000 Hidden Stars Researchers using Gaia and TESS have found that the Pleiades is part of a far larger 3,000-member stellar complex ...

“The Pleiades are very well studied — we often use them as a benchmark in astronomical observations,” said Andrew Boyle, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When I ...