That constellation, along with many others, quickly fell into disuse. One of the most influential star atlases is Johann Bayer’s Uranometria , produced in 1603. It was the first to cover the ...

The first complete star map that still exists today was made in 650 A.D. in Dunhuang, western China, a city on the Silk Road. There, a star atlas was meticulously drawn onto a piece of paper, then ...

The modern constellations are an unusual bunch — here's a tour of the highlights. Ever wonder about what folks used to do for entertainment hundreds or even thousands of years ago? Back then ...

In celebration of the 10th mission year of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have developed a new set of constellations that correspond with gamma-ray emissions.

Space.com: Among the 88 recognized constellations, nearly half are modern constellations invented by people to fill up the sky.

Constellations have long served as maps for navigation, canvases for storytelling, calendars for seasonal changes, ... When modern viewers connect the dots to make shapes, ...

Lateral motions change stars' coordinates on the sky, gradually rearranging our star maps. ... Many of our 88 modern constellations have their origins in Babylonian astronomy.

And when used to map the whole sky, the simulation generated groupings of stars that tended to align with the 88 modern constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union, Sophia ...