Thank the ancient Greeks for giving us the majority of our official 88 constellation names recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But that doesn't mean plenty of other ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

THERE are some constellations you only need to learn once, then you can spot them for the rest of your life. Others are more difficult to find, and you might need some help to work out what they are.

Last month in Starwatch, I featured the constellations Pegasus the Winged Horse and Andromeda the Princess. To review, the two figures that make up the constellations are linked together, and combined ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, shown here with two of its satellite or companion galaxies, is one of few objects in the night sky visible with the unaided eye that's outside our own Milky Way Galaxy. And I do ...

As summer moves on to fall, there is a series of amazing objects to ponder and view in a basic pair of binoculars. The best way to help locate many of these objects, is to take advantage of the free ...