Discover the brightest stars in the Earth’s sky. The brightest star in the sky is, of course, the Sun, the closest to us (150 million kilometers, or 8 light-minutes away) and the one around ...

The latter is far easiest to spot, blazing at magnitude –4.6. Mercury is fainter at magnitude –0.2, but still outshines the fainter stars in this region of the sky, which will slowly start to ...

Glowing at magnitude 8.6, this is one of the sky’s brighter galaxies ... Juno will stand stationary against the background stars, halting its eastward motion and slowly curving back toward ...