Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness to each other, look for the orange-gold of Mars and blue-white of Regulus to ...

The Yale Bright Star Catalogue contains 9,096 stars that are brighter than magnitude 7, roughly the limit of what our eyes can see. Many (40%) ...

What is the bright star in the east right now? Venus, the bright "Morning Star," shines brilliantly in the pre-dawn sky this weekend, close to a much dimmer Saturn.

Stars live longer than you expect. Driessen points out that many visible stars, including those in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, can live for billions of years.