With the moon nearing first quarter or 'half-a-pie' phase, the sky is still dark enough to go out and look for constellations. Some observers even prefer a little moonlight because it snuffs out the ...

I’ve been meaning to tell you about the tiny constellation Delphinus the Dolphin and I’m happy to get to it finally. Less than a hundred years ago, the International Astronomical Union officially ...

As soon as night falls, look high up in the eastern sky to see the three stars of the Summer Triangle: Vega, Deneb and Altair. The lowest of them, Altair, is the brightest star in Aquila (AK-will-uh) ...

Out of the 88 constellations that can be seen from Earth, Delphinus the Dolphin is the 19th smallest and Equuleus the Little Horse is the second smallest. They also happen to be the smallest mammal ...

I just love the little constellation Delphinus the Dolphin, and I hope you fall in love with it too. It’s among the smallest constellations seen from Earth. When most people think of constellations, ...

Of the 88 constellations that can be seen from Earth, Delphinus the Dolphin is the 69th largest. In other words Delphinus is a tiny constellation, but as they say good things come in small packages.

Last Wednesday a white-dwarf star erupted in the constellation Delphinus, producing the brightest nova since 2007. Currently shining at magnitude 4.9, the nova is visible to the naked eye from dark ...

I just love the little constellation Delphinus the Dolphin, and I hope to make you fall in love with it too! Delphinus is in the upper tier of the smallest of constellations seen from Earth. When most ...

Astrophotographer André van der Hoeven captured Nova Delphinus 2013 from HI-Ambacht in The Netherlands on August 16, 2013. He writes: "When I heard the news [about the nova] I pointed my telescope ...