If you live in a city, you’ll still be able to see the brightest ... A star map (or star chart) is basically a cheat sheet for the night sky. It helps you figure out where constellations and ...

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, the third brightest and closest star system ...

But while researching the Pleiades a few months back, I was surprised to learn that it wasn’t the brightest star cluster ... the border between the constellations Dorado and Mensa, it glows ...

The Sirius star is also called the Dog star. The Dog star is a part of the Canis Majoris, or "Big Dog" constellation ... Venus, pictured here, is the brightest of the planets in our solar system.

That, of course, isn’t a star ... constellation we talked about a couple of months ago, Lepus the Hare. It actually looks like a rabbit now. To the left of the Hare is Sirius, the sky’s ...