February evenings offer some of the best conditions for viewing the famous winter constellations. This year they approach Mars from the east, ending the month with the Pleiades star cluster ...

It is also known as the winter circle, winter hexagon or winter oval ... up of seven easy-to-see bright stars from six different constellations in the early evening southeastern sky.

Jupiter and Mars have joined a famous asterism called the Winter Hexagon. It’s made of six bright stars that surround Orion the Hunter. An asterism is an unofficial constellation and there are ...

The brightest stars in the winter constellations form the corners of the Winter Hexagon. To see it, start at the top with Capella, in Auriga the charioteer, and move counterclockwise through the ...