Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

There are two names given to patterns of stars ... the northern hemisphere and a great place to start for stargazing. It is visible all year round from the UK. This asterism is in the ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

The term "constellation" evokes several denotations. The most familiar is "a grouping of naked-eye stars sometimes ...

It consists of seven bright stars. In the northern hemisphere, you’ll be able to spot the zodiacal constellations Cancer, Gemini, Leo and Taurus, plus Auriga and Monoceros. February’s two ...