On December and January evenings, Orion rises early and dominates the southern sky by mid-evening, making him the easiest ...

If one looks high in the northeast or almost straight overhead for Capella on winter evenings, they can see Capella, the ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...

A stack of Starlink V2 Minis, which SpaceX says are designed to fully demise during atmospheric reentry like the rest of the satellites in its broadband constellation. Credit: SpaceX The world’s ...

January for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Quadrantid meteor shower, as Greg Redfern highlights in January’s ...

The term "constellation" has evolved from a loose grouping of stars to officially defined regions of the sky with precise boundaries, formalized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1930, ...

Just like there are 50 U.S. states, each with well-defined boundaries, 88 bounded constellations dot the celestial sphere. Of these about 55 of them are visible from mid-northern latitudes and 59 from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. How many bright stars and constellations can you find in the ...

A stargazer from the northern hemisphere is overwhelmed by the strange splendor of the southern skies. Southern constellations don’t contain the fascinating myths and stories of their northern ...

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