Throughout the year, the stars of the celestial dome make up a plethora of pictures and patterns. Most of what we see are the individual constellations that were used by ancient cultures as visual ...

Sirius, also called the Dog Star, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. Shining more brilliantly than any other star visible from Earth (excluding our sun, of course), Sirius is outshone only by ...

Fellow Durango Herald columnist Andrew Gulliford recently extolled the virtues of presidential dog ownership, and there is even a celestial precedent for having dogs. Orion, the great hunter in the ...