Tagged: constellation

A staple of mythology, the hero Hercules has a strange celestial story. One of the best-known star patterns, Hercules stands high over our heads in the Northern Hemisphere at nightfall this week. Like many of our oldest constellations, Hercules can be traced to the beginnings...

Scorpius is among the most distinctive of constellations in the zodiac. With a little imagination, you can see its stars tracing the shape of a Scorpion. The brilliant red star Antares lies at the Scorpion’s Heart. The constellation has the shape of the letter J,...

For decades astronomers have tried to explain the discrepancy between the size and age of the Rosetta Nebula’s central cavity and that of its central stars. The size and age of the cavity observed in the center of Rosette Nebula is too small when compared...

– Three planets with sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth, orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth, have been discovered by astronomers using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. Astronomers led by Michaël Gillon of the...

– A newly discovered white dwarf, about 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Draco, has no hydrogen or helium at its surface. Instead, a star – nicknamed SDSS J124043.01+671034.68 (or ‘Dox’) has an atmosphere made up of 99.9 percent oxygen, researchers say. “We only found...

Why is this pattern of stars repeated in monuments throughout the ancient world? Why did ancient man consider Orion as one of the most important constellation in the sky? by UFO Disclosure Orion has been very important to ancient man in the past, and these...

The star GJ 9827 – located approximately 100 light years away in the Pisces constellation – includes what may be one of the most massive and dense super-Earth planets detected to date, according to a team of astronomers led Johanna Teske of the Carnegie Institution...