The Summer Triangle... Up Close

If you go outside after sunset -- and can tear your eyes off of the spectacle of Venus and Jupiter slowly merging in the west -- turn around and look to the east. Not long after the sky gets good and dark, you'll see a trio of bright stars not far above the horizon. Day by day, as summer shambles on*, these stars will be higher in the sky, seemingly strengthening as the season does as well. This is the iconic Summer Triangle, made up of three of the brightest stars in the sky: Vega, Deneb, and A...