Spica is the 15th brightest star in the sky and the brightest in the Virgo constellation. The star is also known as Alpha Virginis and is situated around 250 light-years from Earth. Spica is not a ...

Sir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth century are unrivaled. His lasting legacy is his dedicated all-sky survey of star clusters and nebulae, and these objects ...

Sky Heroes [GRADE 3 AND UP] Decide whom you would honor with a place in the sky if we updated the constellations. Also download the Sky Heroes Seasonal Star Maps Astronomy and Geography [GRADE 4 ...

Our meaning-seeking brain naturally interprets patterns in these “fixed” stars as recognizable figures that we call constellations (literally, “collections of stars”). Well, they’re ...

The art, which includes drawings of bulls, rams, leopards, scorpions, and fish, actually represents constellations of stars in the night sky, they said. Martin Sweatman and Alistair Coombs from ...