Delporte drew the lines of the 88 constellations parallel and perpendicular to the celestial sphere's positioning for the ...

It was the first to cover the entire celestial sphere. Bayer set the standard for the classical images we associate with the constellations today. However, there was no rule for what stars were ...

This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the ... of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The plane of our Milky Way ...

Ah, there it is. The first-magnitude star shining faintly on the dull celestial sphere must be Vega (Orihime in the Tanabata legend) in the Lyra constellation. I had given up on seeing it from the ...