To locate the Winter Circle, find the constellation Orion and look for the bright bluish star (Rigel) to the lower right.

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What comes in threes this time of year? The Three Wisemen? The three holidays of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas? How about the three stars of the Belt of Orion! The constellation of Orion is one ...

In writing about the early winter nighttime sky, it's difficult not to mention Orion the Mighty Hunter, surrounded by a large retinue of other bright stars. Indeed, Orion is the star pattern that ...

Auriga (the charioteer) doesn’t get the same press as other winter constellations such as the mighty hunter Orion or the Zodiac star-patterns of Taurus and Gemini. But its leading light, Capella, is ...

There are 88 of them… patterns in the stars named long ago that supposedly depict people, animals and objects. They’re called constellations. Most folks who see them for the first time conclude they ...