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 ...

Star Watch: Fall constellations beginning to appear ...

Who made the present-day official outlines of the 88 constellations and why do they contain so many zigzags? Caitlin McAlister Cottonwood, Arizona If you look at any star atlas published before 1930, ...

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new study reveals that major satellite constellations, including Starlink, ...

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, ...

Ever look up at the night sky and wonder why a random group of stars, constellations, is named after a crab? You aren’t alone. Since humans first looked up, we have been obsessed with connecting the ...

Constellations through the ages -- Constellations of the zodiac -- An astronomy primer -- Watching the skies -- How this book is organized -- The greek alphabet -- Map of the northern sky -- Map of ...

The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo stands out as a large backward question mark pattern of stars known as the Sickle. The bright star ...

We can spend our time under the stars trying to find constellation figures from mythological times, but we’ll always have limited success. If we really ...