"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...

All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

Constellations through the ages -- Constellations of the zodiac -- An astronomy primer -- Watching the skies -- How this book is organized -- The greek alphabet -- Map of the northern sky -- Map of ...

An ancient star chart meticulously carved into the ceiling of an ancient Japanese tomb may in fact show how the night sky once appeared over China. By plotting the location and relative sizes of stars ...