Located in the southern sky, the constellation Vela is Latin for the sails of a ship. The constellation was originally part of a larger constellation named the ship Argo Navis, which was later divided into…

Located in the southern sky, the constellation Indus was surveyed by Europeans in the 1590s. It was mapped on a globe by Pieter Platevoet by early 1598 and thus included in Bayer’s keynote, consolidated sky atlas of…

Located in the northern sky, Boötes is a constellation that gets its name come from the Greek word Boōtēs meaning ‘herdsman’ or ‘plowman.’ The constellation can be seen in the springtime, when it is at its best viewing as it…

Named after the mythical phoenix, Phoenix is a minor constellation located in the southern sky. The constellation was first depicted on a celestial atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria. The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted the brighter stars…

Located on the celestial equator, Monoceros is faint constellation, whose name means unicorn in Greek. Petrus Plancius is attributed with the creation of the constellation in the 17th-century. One of the nearest known black holes to our Solar System is in…

Located in the southern celestial hemisphere, the constellation Fornax is partly ringed by the celestial river Eridanus. The name of the constellation, Fornax is Latin for furnace, which was given by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756. Alpha, Beta and Nu Fornacis,…

Located in the southern celestial hemisphere, Crater is a small constellation with its name being the latinization of the Greek krater, a type of cup used to water down wine. Crater is 1 of the…