I’ve been meaning to tell you about the tiny constellation Delphinus the Dolphin, but with everything else going on this year, like the close approach of Mars, I haven’t got to it. Now’s the time, ...

Last Wednesday a white-dwarf star erupted in the constellation Delphinus, producing the brightest nova since 2007. Currently shining at magnitude 4.9, the nova is visible to the naked eye from dark ...

Part of what makes Delphinus so easy to see and find in the Everett evening sky is that it’s a very simple constellation. All there is to Delphinus are four stars that make a little diamond which ...

Among the 88 constellations that can be seen from Earth, there are two interesting midgets — Delphinus, the dolphin, and Equuleus, the little horse — and they’re snuggling up in the western sky this ...

As soon as night falls, look high up in the eastern sky to see the three stars of the Summer Triangle: Vega, Deneb and Altair. The lowest of them, Altair, is the brightest star in Aquila (AK-will-uh) ...

This month, we find Delphinus the Dolphin swimming in an empty portion of the sky, east of the Milky Way’s plane. Ranking only 69th in size among the 88 sanctioned constellations, Delphinus is drawn ...

Astrophotographer André van der Hoeven captured Nova Delphinus 2013 from HI-Ambacht in The Netherlands on August 16, 2013. He writes: "When I heard the news [about the nova] I pointed my telescope ...

With the moon nearing first quarter or 'half-a-pie' phase, the sky is still dark enough to go out and look for constellations. Some observers even prefer a little moonlight because it snuffs out the ...

I’ve been meaning to tell you about the tiny constellation Delphinus the Dolphin and I’m happy to get to it finally. Less than a hundred years ago, the International Astronomical Union officially ...