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The pre-dawn sky features a planetary conjunction, Jupiter’s moons follow a gravitational dance, and bright stars sparkle in the sky this week.

The Quadrantids peak, Comet Tsuchinshan 1 passes a trio of galaxies, and Venus shines bright in the sky this week.

Comet ZTF plunges through Taurus as Venus, Jupiter, and Mars lie strung across the sky after sunset. This month is also prime time to view the zodiacal light and spot some little-seen lunar features.

Our glowing green visitor remains in the spotlight while the Moon passes in front of Mars and Mercury stands farthest from the Sun from January 27 to February 3.

Taurus the Bull resides near the constellation Orion. In particular, it contains two famous star clusters that are easy to spot: the Pleiades and the Hyades.

Elnath, the 2nd-brightest star in Taurus, is the closest bright star to the galactic anticenter - the point in space directly opposite our Milky Way's center.

The Crab Nebula, the scattered fragments of a supernova, or exploding star, was observed by earthly skywatchers in the year 1054.

Beginning around April 13, 2021, watch for the waxing moon to appear higher each evening in the west after sunset. It’ll be sweeping in between the constellation Taurus the Bull’s two most prominent features: red Aldebaran, the Bull’s brightest star, and the dipper-shaped Pleiades star cluster. These two signposts in Taurus make a triangle on the sky’s dome now with the red planet Mars, which appears only modestly bright, not much more than half as bright as Aldebaran. If you’re at th...

  Friday Jan 29, 2021 at 8:41 AM Jan 29, 2021 at 8:44 AM It’s usually not a great idea to find yourself in front of a bull. That happened to me just once, on a trail. He made a nice display of aiming his horns and was scraping his front hoof on the ground as my friends and I scrambled up an embankment! Thankfully the farmer came by and led him away. Much safer but no less amazing in a different way is to chase after the bull in the night sky. The constellation Taurus ...

Look straight up the next clear night, around 9 p.m. If you live in mid-northerly latitudes you will be gazing upon the beautiful, bright yellow star Capella and its interesting constellation, Auriga the Chariot Driver.We can think of it as a star pattern for the fellows who make a living running a chariot. Next, it will be taxi and bus drivers.This extremely ancient constellation, according to Greek legend, represents Erichthnoius, fourth King of Athens, the son of Vulcan and Minerva. He had