I often refer to the constellation Octans the Octant during my planetarium presentations ... One member of this stellar quartet - Sigma - provides the Southern Hemisphere's best Pole Star. The actual ...

The winter sky has some brightly lit star patterns visible this month, including a triangle featuring Mars, making it ...

The Canpous star resides in the constellation Carina and can be seen with naked eyes during dark skies. It is best seen in Southern Hemisphere. In the constellation Boötes, easily identifiable in ...

The German astronomer Johann Bayer added 11 constellations in his 1603 star atlas, Uranometria, based on Southern Hemisphere ...

The comet’s position in the constellation Sagittarius means it will be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere after sunset. Northern Hemisphere observers likely won’t get a chance to see ...