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

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Whenever you gaze upon the stars and constellations, it’s easy to forget you’re seeing a three-dimensional picture over ...

What are constellations and asterisms? Quiz - Can you guess the constellation? Top tips for stargazing How to spot famous constellations and asterisms The Plough Ursa Major Ursa Minor Cygnus - a ...

Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa Minor, the lesser bear. In antiquity, it was one of the original 48 constellations listed by ...

Whenever you gaze upon the stars and constellations, it’s easy to forget you’re seeing a three-dimensional picture over ...

It’s the sixth-brightest of all the constellations. It contains five of the 100 brightest stars. Only Ursa Major, with six Orion and Scorpius, with seven each, and Centaurus, which has eight ...