Night sky Stars in the night sky The night sky is the nighttime appearance of celestial objects like stars, planets, and the Moon, which are visible in a clear sky between sunset and sunrise, when the Sun is …

The Flamsteed designation of a star, for example, consists of a number and the genitive form of the constellation's name. Other star patterns or groups called asterisms are not constellations under the …

A star chart is a celestial map of the night sky with astronomical objects laid out on a grid system. They are used to identify and locate constellations, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and planets. [1]

Orion as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of star chart cards published in London c. 1825 Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass -shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky. Four …

Lists of stars by constellation All stars but one can be associated with an IAU (International Astronomical Union) constellation. IAU constellations are areas of the sky.

A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. [1] The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth …

Asterism (astronomy) A picture of stars, with a group of appearingly bright blue and white stars. The bright stars together are identified as the asterism Coathanger resembling a coathanger, in the …

A star chart of the entire Southern Sky, centered on the south celestial pole The southern celestial hemisphere, also called the Southern Sky, is the southern half of the celestial sphere; that is, it lies …