This photo features the bright, pentagonal constellation Auriga the Charioteer, which is visible in the northeastern sky at nightfall in early January. It's one of 88 constellations in the ...

splitting the celestial sphere into 88 regions that constitute the modern constellations. The IAU did not set standards for the star patterns of the constellations, however. Even in the 21st ...

This image, captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), showcases the expansive Andromeda Galaxy, also referred to as Messier 31 or M31. This image of M31, our nearest major ...

Only in 1922, the International Astronomical Union devised the list of the 88 modern constellations. Before that time, since 1795, there had been a constellation known as Quadrans Muralis ...

drawing on earlier works by Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian astronomers. Today it is the third largest of the 88 modern constellations. - Source: Wikipedia ...