"Astro" Bob King is a freelance writer for the News Tribune. Read more of his work at astrobob.areavoices.com. M7 (left) and M6 along with a portion of the southern Milky Way poke out from between ...

Our summer sky is bespangled with hundreds of sparkling open star clusters. One of the finest is M7 in Scorpius. It lies just 5° east-northeast of the Scorpion’s stinger stars: Shaula (Lambda [λ] ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.