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 ...

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

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” ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the cross-cultural recognition of specific constellations is attributable to shared human visual systems, rather than solely cultural influences. A computational model ...

The three largest constellations are gracing the evening skies. Hydra, the sea serpent; Virgo, the maiden; and Ursa Major, the big bear are visible in the night sky right now. Hydra lies mainly in the ...

At the end of their lives, most satellites fall to their death. Many of the smaller ones, including most of those going up as ...