This week on Looking Up we are 'shielded' from ignorance about the constellation Scutum, thanks to Bruce Bookout. The night sky contains many odd objects besides the menagerie of strange creatures.

To find our first object, you won’t need any optical aid, but you will need to find the location of the small, faint constellation Scutum the Shield. Find the bright star Altair and its associated ...

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Stellar Astrophysics Group of the University of Alicante (UA), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Valparaíso ...

Star clusters are among the most beautiful objects in the heavens, and the late summer sky features one of the finest of them all. Just to the south of the tail of Aquila, the Eagle, and in the tiny ...

The weeks between summer and fall are a great time of the year for stargazers. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair still floats high overhead in the early evenings, while the autumnal ...

This week’s small-telescope target is open cluster M26 in the constellation Scutum the Shield. To find this object, draw a line from magnitude 3.9 Alpha (α) through magnitude 4.7 Delta (δ) Scuti. Then ...