1: Sun’s Nearest Star System Alpha Centauri is our nearest star neighbor, and is a mere 4.37 light years from the Sun. More accurately, though, it is the nearest ‘star system’ as it actually consists […]
Canopus (Alpha Carinae) located in the constellation Carina is a yellowish-white supergiant 313 light-years away, that is 65 times the size of our own sun. At -0.72 magnitude, it is also the second brightest star in […]
Auriga is a beautiful pentagonal constellation that is almost circumpolar, making it visible most of the year round from the northern hemisphere, but best seen during autumn and winter. “The Charioteer”, as it is also […]
Antares is a red supergiant star burning 10,000 times brighter than our own sun 550 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius. The star is the 16th brightest in the night sky, and can […]
Hercules is the 5th largest constellation, and contains 22 stars which span an impressive 1,225 square degrees of sky. Because the constellation contains no stars above third magnitude, it can be difficult to identify, although […]
The constellation Canis Major contains the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, a blue-white star 8.16 light distant and radiating more than 20 times the energy of our own sun. In actual fact, Sirius A […]
Canis Minor (“small dog”) is the 71st largest of the 88 modern constellations, but despite its diminutive stature it does contain Procyon (“before the dog”), the eighth brightest star in the night sky. In the […]
Canis Major (“greater dog”), situated to the south-east of Orion, is a southern hemisphere constellation that can be seen between November and April from both northern (winter) and southern (summer) latitudes. In Greek mythology, the […]
Andromeda is a “V” shaped star constellation which lies close to the north pole, and thus is only visible from the Southern Hemisphere during spring time (October to December), but in the Northern hemisphere can […]
Cassiopeia is one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky, and being circumpolar can be seen all year round from northern latitudes, as well as from some regions in the Southern hemisphere (-20°) […]
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