The evening sky presents quite a show this month. The bright planets Venus and Jupiter shine prominently in the northwest as the sky darkens. It's best to look for Venus first. The brilliant planet ...

The evening sky boasts two naked-eye planets. Start your night’s viewing with ruddy Mars, which lies in the west as darkness falls. It treks eastward against the backdrop of Virgo, passing 2° north of ...

Geography students should be aware of the distinctions between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The equator separates the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

April evenings provide views of the two brightest planets, though only one stands out. Jupiter gleams at magnitude –2.1 and dominates the northern sky as twilight fades to darkness. It lies in Gemini ...