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Many constellations are named for ancient Greek figures, like Orion. Print this page to connect the dots to create the Orion constellation.
Virgo is the largest constellation of the Zodiac and contains the bright star Spica, many exoplanets and deep-space objects.
Astrophotographer Tamas Ladanyi of The World at Night took this image of the Orion constellation over an ancient castle in Veszprem, Hungary on Feb. 20, 2013.
An Ancient ‘Harbor’ Was Actually a Sacred Pool Designed for Scanning the Stars Archaeologists think the devotional zone was dedicated to the god Ba’al ...
The light blue circles represent chisel marks from the stone that map onto stars in the constellation Scorpio; the red marks could not be matched with a nearby star.
To create the 3-D map, the research team observed an area of the sky in the direction of the constellation Sextans, one of the most studied galactic regions outside of the Milky Way.