VILLAGE VOICE ASTRONOMY CORNER

Past Columns by Jim Kaler

• Two Bright Planets (Venus and Jupiter in the winter of 2015)

• A Sunny Day (The amazing Sun and its effect on Earth)

• The Seasons (The origin of the seasons, the tropics, and the arctic)

• Orion (Orion and its stars)

• North Star (Polaris, the star that guides our way)

Photo of Taurus with Saturn (to lower left) by Jim Kaler.

Go to Skylights for bi-weekly sky news and to Stars for the Stars of the Week and other nifty astronomy sites..