This week on Looking Up Venus entertains the Beehive Cluster in a celestial gathering of lovely and luminous objects. Have you been wondering what that really bright star-like thing is in the western sky after sundown? Well, it’s the planet Venus, the third brightest thing in our sky, after the Sun and the Moon.

This week on Looking Up we are introduced to Barnard’s Star. There is a lovely constellation in the Southern Colorado sky right now, with the awkward name of Ophiuchus. And in Ophiuchus is a remarkable star with the unusually possessive name of Barnard’s Star.

This week on Looking Up we comb through Leo the Lion’s mane and discover a star by the name of Algenubi.  We’ve talked before about constellations that really don’t look like what they’re named after, and some that do.

This week on Looking Up we check in on one of our solar system neighbors… Ceres. Can we talk Ceres for a minute? Or, more precisely, 90 seconds? You see, Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Solar System, is particularly well positioned to observe this week, and you should take a look – Ceres-ously!

This week on Looking Up we learn about the second biggest object in our solar system – Jupiter. May is a great month in the southern Colorado sky if you like things that are really big. What’s the biggest thing in our neck of the woods?

This week on Looking Up we learn about an interesting star system, and also how to pronounce Zubenelgenubi. There is a very interesting star to see in the southern Colorado sky right now, and it’s pretty easy to find this month. Why? Because it has a giant ball of gas nearby as a marker.

Movie stars have been known to lead secret lives. This week on Looking Up Hal divulges the secret of a star called Izar.

As it turns out, galaxies tend to hang out in groups. We learn more about that on this week’s Looking Up. April showers bring May flowers, but clear nights in April bring one of the most wonderful and beautiful things up in the sky, clusters of galaxies.

This week on Looking Up Hal invites us out for a ‘steaming’ cup of ‘celestial tea’. One of the frustrations of looking at the sky can be wondering how the heck astronomers decided a particular pattern of stars looks like. Corvus the Crow actually looks like, well, a kite.

This week on Looking Up we learn about a rising star in the east that is a harbinger of spring and summer weather. We are only a couple days away from the beginning of Spring, at least astronomically speaking.

This week on Looking Up Hal starts looking ahead to a famous springtime constellation… One of my favorite constellations, Leo the Lion, is back in our night sky. I like Leo for a couple of reasons. First, seeing it up in sky means that Spring is nearly here.

Have you seen Naos, the runaway star? This week on Looking Up Hal pinpoints it in the night sky for us. There is an interesting and odd star visible in the Southern Colorado sky right now that is worth a look, the strange and lovely star Naos, at just under 1000 ly from Earth.

There are two ‘sister’ star clusters in the constellation Taurus the Bull. This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout introduces us to the five daughters of Atlas… the Hyades. Over the last few years we have discussed the beautiful winter asterism known as the Pleiades.

This week on Looking Up… meet Alphard, a giant orange sun that seems to have lost its partner but gained a lot of barium in the process. In earlier episodes, we’ve talked about the bright stars that make up the winter night sky here in southern Colorado.

This week on Looking Up Hal gives us the extended celestial forecast – partly cloudy, with a chance for comets… I admit it; I’m a sucker for comets. I can’t help but wax a tad philosophic when I think of these remarkable and ancient objects.

This week  Hal dusts off a topic we covered previously on Looking Up but is now in need of an update. A couple years ago I told you about a cool thing you can see in the Southern Colorado sky, Zodiacal Light! And the good news is, it’s back.