How to Use Boötes in a Sentence

Boötes

noun
  • Finding Bootes early in the evening is easy.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Our early evening view is gradually turning away from the direction of space occupied by Bootes.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • By early November, Bootes will pretty much already be below the horizon at the end of evening twilight.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Take a good look at Bootes now because as September rolls into October, Arcturus and Bootes will start out the evening lower and lower in the western sky.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Ancient Chinese astronomers saw Bootes and Virgo as part of a larger formation of stars representing the horn of a great azure dragon, with Arcturus serving as its shining tip.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2026
  • Arcturus is the brightest star in the entire evening sky in October and the brightest in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman, which looks much more like a giant kite with Arcturus lighting up the tail.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The blue-white light of the star Spica will be visible twinkling to the upper right of the lunar disk in the constellation Virgo, while the red supergiant Arcturus glows to its upper left in Bootes.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Up to 25 shooting stars could be visible streaking through the night sky from the constellation Bootes under ideal dark sky conditions, according to the American Meteor Society.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The radiant for the June Bootids -- the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to originate -- is located in northwestern Bootes, which sits high in the western and northwestern sky during the evening for viewers in the Northern Hemisphere.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 June 2026

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