Follow the arc of its handle to Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the sky, shining with an orange hue in the Boötes constellation above the east. Next, locate Vega, a brilliant blue-white ...

This blue-white star 77 light-years from our sun is one of the brightest in the April sky. The winter constellation of Orion may now be slumping into the western horizon after dark, but a ...