1.3K views · 64 reactions | Want to find your way around the night sky without using an app? The secret is star hopping – using bright, easy-to-spot stars to guide you to other constellations! | Star Gazers | Facebook

This evening, look east. The brightest “star” climbing out of twilight is not a star at all. Jupiter, shining around magnitude -2.7, rises tonight as a golden beacon in the eastern sky. In just 14 days it reaches opposition—its closest, brightest point of the year—yet it’s already dazzling: about 11 times Earth’s diameter, 318 times our mass, wrapped in cloud bands of hydrogen and helium. Through simple backyard binoculars you can see four tiny points of light—Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto—alig

240K views · 9.1K reactions | #StarNews: While many of the attendees on Sunday 'braffed' and 'flossed' while listening to hits at the Chris Brown and Friends concert, Samantha Brown was working, working, working. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/4zpjn54t : Shanel Lemmie, La Tania Jonelle Hall | The Jamaica Star | Facebook