High in the summer sky, the constellation Hercules acts as a centerpiece for late-night stargazers. At the center of Hercules is the "Keystone," a near-perfect square shape between the bright ...

This star chart shows the prominent constellations, bright stars and planets that can be seen from Loveland at 11 p.m. MDT at the first of June, 10 p.m. MDT at the middle of the month and 9 p.m ...

Having a good phone app is a lot of fun and quite helpful in verifying stars, asterisms, and constellations. Most apps will ...

The constellation Hercules is high in the east after dark this evening. Rich with deep-sky objects, we’re passing by the Strongman’s most famous (M13) for its second-brightest globular cluster ...

August is one of my favorite times of year to observe the stars; that’s because it’s warm! High overhead is Hercules, which contains a wonderful globular star cluster known as M13.

These types of stars might be physically related or appear close in our line of sight. In a true binary star system, the double stars are gravitationally bound and orbit a common center of mass.

This is different from an asterism, which is also a grouping of stars.These groupings might be well-known, like the Big Dipper, but are not official constellations, like Ursa Major, which contains ...

The Greek constellation names don’t stray far from ancient Greek mythology.No less than 20 of the 88 names have a strong tie to mythology and even many of the animals also tie in mythology.

There are seven stars that make up the constellation's distinctive crown-shaped pattern. The constellation of Corona Borealis is located between Hercules and Boötes in the night sky.

Astronomers have discovered a stellar binary, or pair of stars, with an extremely short orbit, appearing to circle each other every 51 minutes. The system seems to be one of a rare class of ...

At a distance of 22,000 light-years, M13 contains some 300,000 stars held together by gravitation into a spherical volume about 170 light-years across.