Coma Berenices (“Berenice’s Hair”) is a very faint northern sky constellation that represents the hair of Berenice II of Egypt, the wife of King Ptolemy III who reigned from 246–222 BC. The constellation’s brightest star, […]
Happy New Year! January 2017 offers stargazers an opportunity to see the winter sky’s most prominent constellations, as well five planets, and a wonderful meteor shower called the The Quadrantids. Here’s our monthly guide that […]
Delphinus, meaning “the dolphin” in Latin, was one of the 48 constellations catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in his 2nd century treatise called Almagest. Unlike many other constellations, Delphinus actually resembles the sea animal […]
Lupus, meanings “the wolf” in Latin, is one of the original 48 constellations catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria around 150 AD. It is a southern hemisphere constellation found between Centaurus and Scorpius, […]
Octans is the southernmost of all the 88 recognized constellations, and was named in the 18th century by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille after the now obsolete navigational instrument known as an octant. […]
Pictor was named by French astronomer Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille after spending the period between 1750 and 1754 cataloguing stars of the southern celestial hemisphere while in South Africa. Originally called ‘Equuleus Pictorius’ or “the […]
Grus is one of the twelve constellations that was created by Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius in the late 16th Century, and subsequently incorporated by the German celestial cartographer Johann Bayer’s into his sky atlas called […]
When we think of wars in space, we may imagine science fiction scenarios such as Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star, but the U.S. military is taking the threat of a war in space as […]
We’re currently in the middle of another space race, this time between China and the United States, with both countries investing heavily in developing technologies to help them accomplish the major feat of putting humans […]
A century ago, having a conversation about the various features on the Moon could prove a difficult task as the maps of its surface were not standardized. In fact, it was left up to whoever […]
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