For once, let’s not seek out the esoteric but do our exploring in one of the night’s most familiar places: the belt of Orion. Its leftmost star, Alnitak (pronounced ALL-nye-tack), is our focus ...

Orion's Belt is known as an asterism, a pattern of stars that is not one of the 88 official constellations. As its name suggests, Orion's Belt typically represents the waist of Orion in depictions ...

Placed so unmistakably in the center of Orion’s Belt, Alnilam is one of the 57 stars used in navigation. If only all the rest of that Heinz variety were so easy to locate, the back-to-nature ...

Orion's spectacular stars and the bright nebulas in his sword and belt are well worth a look on chilly winter nights. Your favorite mobile astronomy app can help you find them and see what they ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion.

On these chilly March evenings, there’s nothing quite as nice as a good belt, something to keep you all warm and toasty. I’m talking hot chocolate, tea or whatever.

On Astronomy — Orion: My favorite constellation. Published 12:41 pm Saturday, ... Orion’s belt is an asterism of three nearly perfectly aligned stars that make finding Orion easy.

It’s one of the most well-known constellations in the night sky, and now Orion’s Belt has been caught on camera - both in the sky and reflected in the river below. Photographer Vitalij Kopa ...

Orion is the gift that keeps on giving. When you look toward that constellation in the sky, ... Bad Astronomy Cold fire threads Orion’s Belt. By Phil Plait. May 02, 2012 6:00 AM.

This column is my third and final installment about the constellation Orion the Hunter's celestial treasures, the best the evening skies have to offer, at least in this stargazer's opinion. This ...

Photographer Vitalij Kopa captured the beautiful photo from Latvia’s Virtrupe river, and NASA has now featured it as its Astronomy Picture of the Day ...