The map can be used in two ways. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose we spot a large triangle of bright stars about halfway from the eastern horizon to the zenith.

"Star maps, even though they show the world above, still reflect a lot of what's going on down below," he said.

Week of June 15-28, 2025 I've been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited the Southern ...

Back to Article List The Nebra Sky Disk: Is the world’s oldest star map really a map at all? Controversy abounds over an ancient artifact most researchers agree is astounding.

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

As analysts go gaga over Android this week, Google is unveiling a high-tech “mobile planetarium” that could catapult the system into a whole new world. Google Sky Map was officially introduced ...

Star maps can be used in two ways. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose, for example, we spot a large triangle of bright stars about halfway from the eastern horizon to the zenith.

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

But Hipparchus was the first to define the locations of stars using two coordinates, and to map stars across the whole sky.

A roughly 3,000-year-old stone disk covered with enigmatic markings is actually an ancient celestial map marking the brightest stars in the night sky, researchers claim.

Gebhard places the sky disk with others with similar motifs dating to the Iron Age. This would mean that the Nebra Sky Disk is roughly 1 millennium younger than initial dates suggested, putting it at ...