Our star chart is designed to get you out learning ... as that's where northern-hemisphere observers see the ecliptic, where the planets prowl. You can also alter direction by using the Move ...

A star chart carved into the ceiling of an ancient ... It has designations for the horizon, equator and ecliptic circles, as well as recognisable patterns of stars. While older depictions of ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...

In the early morning hours of June 3, six planets, including Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune and Saturn will momentarily align on the ecliptic ... a dark sky, a star chart and at the ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky.

The Dunhuang map (not the chart studied in the new research) is an early star map from China dating to the Tang Dynasty (A.D.