Star patterns such as the hunter Orion and ... In 1930, astronomers divided the sky into 88 constellations, giving each a Latin name. Before this time, there was no one universally accepted ...

Conspicuous stars in the same direction from us normally ... Uniformity didn't occur until the 1930 agreement that gave us ...

April’s nights see some of the sky’s largest constellations, and from their vastness spring a laundry list of celestial and mythological marvels.

NGC 4826, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy, Messier 64, or M64, is a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, famous for its dark band of dust across ...