October belongs to Pegasus and the water constellations, which float through the southern sky after nightfall. Reigning supreme high in the south are the Great Square of Pegasus and, stretching from ...

Saturday, October 12With no Moon in the sky for several hours before dawn this morning, let's try for one of the sky's most distant naked-eye wonders: the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) in the ...

However in October 1957, everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event, Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With his friends ...

October begins and ends with a full moon. The first rises the evening of the 1st, only about three hours past the exact moment of fullness. Following it into the eastern sky is Mars, now too ...

Saturn drops into the sun’s afterglow, but its fate may go unnoticed, given everything the morning planets are up to. The month begins with three planets and one bright star ...