Who made the present-day official outlines of the 88 constellations and why do they contain so many zigzags?Caitlin ...

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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” ...

January is the best time to observe these constellations—some prominent and some not so much.

Thomas Jefferson wanted to bring the stars indoors. Jefferson, in designing the University of Virginia’s iconic Rotunda, planned to paint constellations on the ceiling of the Dome Room. He never ...