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Starscape Stars shining at us from across the cosmos compete with streetlights and largely lose. Light pollution swallows most of the visible universe without a burp. This loss can work to our advantage. It simplifies the nightime sky, making the stars and planets that we do see that much easier to identify. Starscape specializes in urban stargazing and astronomy. Night of the Hunter Stella Hopper Heralding the fall of the year, the great hunter Orion returns in October to dominate the nighttime sky. Then, just before Halloween, to clear the way for his climb to the top of the winter heavens, he shoots his arrows across the sky, every three minutes or so, in the Orionid meteor showers which peak around October 21. Image ... The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared Light (M104, 28 million light-years away). A composite image produced by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, 2003. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScl/AURA).