The moon dominates our night skies this weekend and well into the coming week.

The moon returns to our evening skies in the coming week.

Late tonight, before midnight, the gibbous moon rises in the east.

A brilliant full moon lights the winter skies this weekend.

In the earliest years of astronomy, no one had a clear understanding of the magic of the stars in the skies. Twinkling stars were untouchable, yet they glowed every night. Naming the constellations after mythological creatures probably came out of an effort to both understand and remember.

A thin crescent moon hugs close to the western sky beginning in the new week. Today the moon is in the New Moon phase, and out of sight tonight.