See the Stars: Your First Guide to the Night Sky - Hardcover

Save the complicated star charts for later. With SEE THE STARS, it's easy for you to experience the twelve best and brightest star patterns in the sky. On a clear night, just open to the page for the month you're in, look at an actual color photograph of the constellation, and face the direction given. You'll enjoy one of the sky's most amazing star patterns, including: ORION (January). Learn why stars are different colors, and see a cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born. THE BIG DIPPER (February). This easy-to-find star pattern points the way to many other sights, including the North Star, and it has an amazing double star of its own. LEO (March). Find the mighty lion, whose heart is marked by a ! bright, blue star, Regulus. BOOTES (April). A bright, orange star named Arcturus shows what our Sun will look like billions of years from now. LYRA (May). This small constellation has one of the brightest stars of all, beautiful Vega. CYGNUS (June). Watch out for two black holes--mysterious dead stars from which nothing can escape. SCORPIUS (July). Find bright, red Antares, a star that rivals the beauty of the planet Mars. SAGITTARIUS (August). Use this teapot pattern to find the center of our Galaxy. CASSIOPEIA (September). Here shines a yellow star like our Sun. Does it support alien life? PERSEUS (October). Find Algol, a star that fades and brightens every 2 days and 21 hours. AURIGA (November). Can you see Epsilon Aurigae? Once every 27 years, something huge passes in front of it, dimming it for two years at a time. TAURUS (December). Here are the two best star clusters in the sky--plus a star that points the way to the edge of our Galaxy's disk of star! s.