Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. How many bright stars and constellations can you find in the ...

This photo features the bright, pentagonal constellation Auriga the Charioteer, which is visible in the northeastern sky at nightfall in early January. It's one of 88 constellations in the National ...

Humanity has spent literal millenia looking toward the night skies, tracking the stars that blazed against the darkness and finding images — constellations — out of the patterns they saw there. If you ...

Just like there are 50 U.S. states, each with well-defined boundaries, 88 bounded constellations dot the celestial sphere. Of these about 55 of them are visible from mid-northern latitudes and 59 from ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...