Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. How many bright stars and constellations can you find in the ...

Humanity has spent literal millenia looking toward the night skies, tracking the stars that blazed against the darkness and finding images — constellations — out of the patterns they saw there. If you ...

One of the most famous of all constellations to grace the wintertime sky — and one which looks little like its namesake — is Taurus, the bull. During early January, you can find it midway up in the ...

The constellation ARA (pronounced AIR-uh) the Altar was one of the “original” constellations of the Greeks. It appeared in Phaenomena, a 3rd-century-b.c. work by the Greek poet Aratus. He based it on ...

Constellations are funny things, and beginner stargazers have so many misconceptions about them. Some novices believe constellations are fanciful pictures in the sky and may wonder why they can never ...