January’s full moon arrives at 10:52 p.m. on Jan. 15. Algonquin Indians called this the wolf moon, for the hungry howling of the packs in the depth of winter. That night it will follow Jupiter across ...
This week’s first small-telescope target is Sirius B, the companion to the night sky’s brightest star, Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. American telescope-maker Alvin Graham Clark discovered that ...