Its distinctive cross asterism is marked simply by four bright stars. Photograph by BABAK TAFRESHI, Nat Geo Image Collection One of the most famous of all southern constellations, Crux is the ...

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

Here then, are the Almost-Famous Five. Shining with an impressive magnitude of 0.4, Procyon is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor and the 8th brightest star in the sky.

It has an apparent magnitude of 2.04, making it one of the brighter stars in the constellation. Mizar is a famous naked-eye double star, perhaps one of the most famous in the sky. With its twin ...

The first constellations were defined before you could imagine. Ancient civilisations used groups of visible stars to tell stories about their beliefs, experiences, creation and myths. Stars ...

The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star Antares in the constellation Scorpius on the night of June 9.

Just to the left of Triangulum Australe and slightly higher is a larger constellation that’s made of mostly dim stars. But it’s very famous, at least to a particular group of people.

The famous Horsehead ... at the constellation and observed it over several years. The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex features these iconic nebulae, as well as the most active star-forming region ...