Summer stargazing

POLARIS: Due to the precession of our Earth, it is the current North Pole star. As you see in this long-exposure photograph, Polaris is at the center, and others revolving around. Now, let's...

Welcome to Sirius Stargazing. I'm TK and in this episode we're going to look at the brilliant Open Cluster associated with the star Alpha Persei. Now, the Greek letter alpha tells us...

The Great Cross - Romanian Constellation. Swan or Cygnus is a constellation visible at the zenith, better seen at our country latitude during summer. Its neighbors are the constellations Vulpecula,...

Hello and welcome to this introduction to Sirius Stargazing. I'm TK, I'm an astronomy educator, and my ambition in life is to bring the stars to as many people as I possibly can....

Hi, this is Phil Plait - The Bad Astronomer - and you are watching Sirius Stargazing. Welcome to Sirius Stargazing. I'm TK and in this episode we're going to look at the beautiful...

This Week at NASA... The NASA Science Day on Capitol Hill provided an opportunity to showcase for members of Congress and the public, the work and accomplishments of the agency's Science...

Salutations celestial sight seers! I'm David Fuller, welcome to Eyes on the Sky; what's up this week? Last week was a couple of globular clusters; how about some open clusters? The...

[ music ] The 2012 Perseid Meteor Shower - presented by Science@NASA On the nights of Aug. 11th through 13th, the best meteor shower of the year will fill pre-dawn skies with hundreds of shooting...

Welcome to our first night sky lab of the semester. In these labs we'll be learning how the night sky looks in different seasons of the year, we will see that it is slightly different. We will...

Salutations celestial sight seers! I'm David Fuller, welcome to Eyes on the Sky; what's up this week? At a visual magnitude of zero, Vega is the fifth brightest star in the entire...