The shapes we draw may vary, but the borders of the constellations are fixed. In 1930, astronomers divided the sky into 88 constellations, giving each a Latin name. Before this time, there was no ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes 88 official constellations, which were named throughout the ...

Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 "official" constellations ... celestial sphere into 88 regions that constitute the modern constellations.