The Archer

August means grand, and this month the sky features something truly august: the center of the galaxy. All naked-eye objects visible from the United States - absolutely everything on Earth and in the starry firmament (except for the Andromeda galaxy, now rising in the northeast) - revolve around this single spot in the summer sky. Yet a glance upward into the south reveals . . . absolutely nothing. You'll simply have to take it on faith that it's there.