Reference article: Facts about star charts and how to use them. With their unique and slightly mysterious look, star charts attempt to capture what we see and what we know about the night sky.

is now considered the oldest star chart in the world. Later observations written into the catalog showed inconsistencies with ...

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. 618 to 907). | Credit: CPA Media Pte Ltd via Alamy The oldest star ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The app, called Star Chart for VR, is billed as the first virtual reality planetarium. When used with the Google Cardboard viewer, it lets viewers experience virtual reality via their smartphones ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it was later updated around A.D. 125.