Today:
Tomorrow, early risers can look to the southeast and see the waning Crescent Moon just below the right-hand claw of Scorpius. The red star Antares, known as the heart of the scorpion, rises just to the left of the Moon, and barely below it. Antares will rise at around 4:45 AM, and will remain visible until the glow of the twilight overwhelms it, at around 6:15 AM.

Wednesday:
While Orion’s Belt stands out as it rises higher into the southeast during the evenings, more impressive might be the stars themselves. Each of these stars is a stellar powerhouse, the two outer stars more than 100 thousand times brighter than our Sun, and the middle star perhaps 500 thousand times brighter!

Thursday:
The Big Dipper is beginning to rise into the northeast. The two stars on the end of the “bowl” of the Dipper, known as the “pointer stars”, can serve to form a line, extending to the left where they guide you to Polaris, the North Star.