You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious ...

But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side ... But you can easily train the eye to reverse the view. It’s an illuminating experience that reveals a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

Venus appears low in the evening sky, guiding us to Saturn. Jupiter makes an attractive sight below the Hyades and Mars remains a fine sight.

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

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which features the Orion Nebula, or Messier 42. Visible as a dim, fuzzy object to the naked eye, this nebula appears as a large gas cloud when viewed with binoculars or a small telescope.