I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

Cassiopeia (pronounced kass ee oh pee ... To find this object, first locate the magnitude 5.8 star 44 Cas. Then move ¾° north-northeast. Along the way, you'll pass the 8th-magnitude cluster ...

the North Star and most resembling an "M." At that time, even those living as far south as 20 degrees south latitude can see the Queen, hovering directly above their northern horizon. Cassiopeia ...

Beautifully captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this image shows interstellar gas and dust lit up by a dead ...