Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Today: The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, sparkles in the south as twilight fades by 8:00 PM, sliding into the southwest through the course of the evening, one of the first stars out as twilight fades. Its brilliance is due, in part to its relative closeness, only...

Monday, March 16, 2026

Today: As the star Arcturus climbs to one third of the way above the eastern horizon at 11:00 PM this, look for another brilliant star to return to the skies, the bluish-white Vega, just rising in the north-northeast. Vega appears on any clear night of the year, but...

March 16, 2026

Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 6:58 PM Length of day: 11 hours and 57 minutes Although some years winter still has the upper hand, on this date in 1990, spring was well underway. Muddy roads and rapidly melting snow were under foot, while the sunny skies sent thermometers...