Where to find The Wintermaker, Curly Tail, The Sacred Loop and more indigenous constellations in the night sky. ... (2014, August 13). “native skywatchers” revives Indigenous Star Knowledge.

There are shared constellations across cultures, Donahue said. For example, her favourite constellation is Wesakechak, the trickster — also known as the Greek constellation Orion the hunter.

Mega-constellations are groupings of satellites that communicate and work together as they orbit Earth. Since 2018, the Starlink project, run by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has launched about 1,700 ...

But, as Neilson explains, there’s more to Indigenous astronomy than just constellations. “We tend to say that there’s ‘astronomy,’ and then ‘cultural astronomy’ that isn’t the real ...

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) -A chance to recontextualize the familiar, MSU Mankato hosted a traveling planetarium Friday to teach about interpretations of the night sky that come from local indigenous ...

Unfortunately, many stellar groupings that some ancient cultures recognized are still not well understood by modern scholars — although we have identified some of their names and corresponding ...

Manitoba's Wilfred Buck sees Indigenous history in the stars. Filmmaker Lisa Jackson has made a documentary about the Cree elder and Astronomy expert known as 'The Star Guy.' ...