"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

The surface of the Northern Crown star in the Coronae Borealis constellation, explodes about once every 80 years. The star is behaving how it did right before it exploded the last time in 1946.

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In 12,000 years it will be another star, Vega, which is all to say our reality can change when perceptions shift. The stars aren't moving in the sky. It's the Earth's view of them that has changed.

Where to find The Wintermaker, Curly Tail, The Sacred Loop and more indigenous constellations in the night sky. Standing under the night skies in North America pointing out stars with Arabic names ...