The Hyades cluster is located 153 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, making it the closest open cluster to Earth. This beautiful arrangement of stars has fascinated stargazers since ancient times and is one of …
The purpose of this list is to show that you do not always need a telescope to observe literally thousands of spectacular deep-sky objects (DSOs) in the night sky. In most cases, the objects on …
Canis Major may be only the 43rd biggest of the 88 recognized constellations, but it does have the distinction of containing the night sky’s most luminous star, Sirius, a double star situated 8.6 light years …
In the second century, Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) situated in the constellation of Centaurus was described by Ptolemy in his astronomical treatise called Almagest as “a star on a horse’s back”. By 1826, however, Scottish …
Cassiopeia is the 25th largest of the 88 constellations, taking up an area of 598 square degrees of the northern sky. The brightest star in the constellation is Schedar (Alpha Cassiopeiae), a magnitude 2.24 orange …
Sagittarius is the 15th biggest of the 88 recognized constellations and the 5th biggest of the zodiac constellations, taking up an area of 867 square degrees of the southern sky. The brightest star in the …
Scorpius is the 33rd biggest of the 88 recognized constellations, and the 9th largest of the zodiacal constellations, taking up an area of 497 square degrees between of the southern sky. The brightest star in …
Libra is the 29th biggest of the 88 recognized constellations, and the 7th largest of the zodiacal constellations, taking up an area of 538 square degrees of the southern sky. It is also the only …
Virgo is the 2nd largest of the 88 recognized constellations, and the biggest of the zodiacal constellations, taking up an area of 1,294.43 square degrees of the southern celestial sky. The brightest star in Virgo …
Leo is the 12th biggest of the 88 recognized constellations, and the 3rd biggest zodiacal constellations, taking up an area of 947 square degrees of the northern celestial hemisphere. The brightest star in Leo is …
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