Ancient sky watchers imagined that prominent arrangements of stars formed patterns, and they associated these with particular aspects of nature or their myths.

Over the weekend, sky watchers reported moderate brightening of the dancing lights.

On Christmas Day, 2000, alert sky watchers across North America can enjoy a partial solar eclipse.

Dotting the grass along Freeport Bay, about 30 sky watchers gazed in just about as many directions on that clear night a few weeks ago.

In 1966, sky watchers clocked a rate of up to 100,000 meteors an hour at the peak of the Leonid storm.

Though any sky watchers on Clio would not recognize a star ship, yet there might be talk of any strange appearance in their sky.

More than 100,000 sky watchers and conspiracy enthusiasts are expected to attend the golden anniversary celebration here during the first week of July, according to event organizers.

But with skies cloudy over most of Europe and North America, asteroid experts scrambled to find amateur sky watchers with a clear view.

Ancient sky watchers saw the heavens as a kind of cosmic sculpture garden, eternal and unchanging.

Imagine how puzzled earlier generations of sky watchers accustomed to a sun-centered universe would be in seeing cosmology presented this way.