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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 hope you enjoy the constellation Delphinus the Dolphin as much as I do. It’s said that good things come in small packages, and Delphinus certainly helps prove that. It’s the 19th smallest of all of ...

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 ...

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 ...