Thank the ancient Greeks for giving us the majority of our official 88 constellation names recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But that doesn’t mean plenty of other ...

Even though humans have been looking at the night sky for millenia, not everyone sees the same sky. Not even the ...

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To be honest, professional astronomers don’t really use constellations when talking about objects unless it’s in the name (such as, for example, the name of the star Alpha Centauri ...

At one time the constellations overlapped and names were given to them which were in many cases of local interest, and could never have become international. For instance, every astronomer of note ...

But did you know that cats are also represented in the heavens? Three constellations bear the names of feline species: Leo, Leo Minor and Lynx. Leo, after the Latin word for “lion,” was ...

Over half of the 88 official constellation names are attributed to the ancient Greeks. The International Astronomical Union governs the naming of these star-formed “patterns.” The first known ...