Read more: How the constellations got their names From Earth ... Sumeria in the Middle East and Egypt each had their own star maps, for example. According to a 2017 paper from the journal of ...

Thank the ancient Greeks for giving us the majority of our official 88 constellation names recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But that doesn’t mean plenty of other ...

That British-leaning name didn’t stick, so it was Uranus ever after. But just because we categorize a constellation as extinct doesn’t mean we have no record of it. Star maps exist that show ...

To be honest, professional astronomers don’t really use constellations when talking about objects unless it’s in the name (such as, for example, the name of the star Alpha Centauri ...

They don’t draw on the little lines joining the dots, they just divide the map into 88 regions labelled with the constellation names. If we started astrophysics all over again, with no ...

There are 23 maps that show constellations as lines ... Phonetic spellings of star and constellation names are given next to the regular spellings. The Big and Little Dippers and Cassiopeia's ...

The interactive site uses a map of the gamma-ray sky from ... gamma-ray sky themselves and learn about the name, artwork, and details behind each constellation.