Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...

While many other star patterns have changed their names over the millennia – Aries, the Ram, for instance was the Farm Labourer in ancient Mesopotamia – Taurus and Leo have kept their ancient ...

From Regulus, move 4.8° due north to magnitude 3.5 Eta (η) Leonis, the next star in the Sickle, then 4.3° northeast to reach magnitude 2.0 Gamma Leo. Jump another 3.7° north of this star to ...