A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
Flip through any old astronomy textbook and you'll usually find the planets lined up in a neat row of bold, saturated colors, angry red Mars, deep blue Neptune, a swirling orange and cream Jupiter. Its a great visual, but its also not always the...
Here's a funny thing about the Little Dipper. Almost everyone has heard of it, plenty of people think they've seen it, and most of them are actually looking at something else entirely. It's the shy cousin of the famous Big Dipper, dimmer and trickier...
Asteroid 44 Nysa has been sitting in astronomers' sights since 1857, bright, big, and stubbornly hard to pin down. Every few decades, someone got a slightly better look and walked away more confused than before, first it looked stretched out, then maybe two lumps...