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 ...

When I was a teenager, I received a celestial map of the northern hemisphere. These maps helped me learn the basic constellations (generally defined as “a group of stars that appears to form a pattern ...

Amateur astronomy sounds simple in theory: Get a telescope, point it at the sky and look. But gaze into the night sky and you'll see countless points of light. How do you find a single star or ...