If you’ve been reading my column for a while, you know there are many kinds of critters represented among the ancient constellations. Today I’d like to share with you the story of one of the newer ...

Hydra the Water Snake unfurls across the southern sky during late March and April evenings. The long constellation begins just below the bright planet Jupiter and coils toward the southeast, crossing ...

Follow the coils of Hydra this spring to see some of the most strikingly colorful stars in the sky. Out of the 88 constellations, more than half represent animals or hybrids of animals. Some of these ...

With the bright moon now completely out of our early evening night skies this week, we can look to the south to trace one of the most extensive of all star patterns: the long and mostly faint ...

The moon is at last quarter tonight and will not rise until 1:47 Friday morning. This gives us a good chance to enjoy the evening winter sky. Let's try for a somewhat more challenging sight than ...

The slithering head of Hydra, marked in red, moves its way into the northern latitudes, seen here of the pristine lake of Llyn y Fan Fach in the Brecon Beacons Dark Sky Reserve in Wales, U.K. In the ...

Here's a trivia question: Which is the largest of all constellations? If you answered "Hydra," you know more about the night sky than you admit. At this time of year we can find Hydra, the water snake ...

Now is a good time to see one of the largest yet least recognized constellations in the northern skies, because the moon will be new Friday and out of the late evening sky for a few days. Hydra the ...

Last December, we toured the constellation Triangulum. Small in size, it can be fully explored in a single evening, much like a fisherman can cover a small pond in one day. In that December article, I ...

MAKE a fist with your hand, then hold it out to the sky at arm’s length. The width covered by your fist will be around 10 degrees. Now imagine 10 of these in a row. The biggest constellation in the ...