The night sky is filled with constellations that help us navigate the stars, but not all constellations are created equal.

The celestial north pole pointed to the bright star Vega some 14,000 years ago, at a time when our hunter-gathering ancestors roamed the Earth.

On the plus side, one of those stars is Deneb, the 19 th brightest star and therefore very easy to find. The Martian South Celestial Pole points towards the constellation Vela.

Both Kochab and Pherkad were close to the celestial pole around 3,00 years ago, granting them the moniker of 'Guardians of the Pole', according to stargazing website EarthSky.org. Kochab came ...

Directly above their terrestrial counterparts, the celestial poles are points in the night sky around which the stars appear to rotate. Today, the north celestial pole points close to the star ...

Halfway between the two poles is the celestial equator, marking the boundary between the northern and southern sky. Mirroring the terrestrial coordinate system, we define the north celestial pole ...

Neptune’s north celestial pole is a little closer to Deneb than Mars’ is, but it also has the fainter Delta Cygni respectably close. Its south pole has Gamma Velorum, which is a little ...

Celestial Poles: The Points On The Celestial Sphere Directly Overhead At Either Of The Earth’s Poles. The Projection Of Earth’s Poles Into Space…. Celestial Equator: The Imaginary East-West Line That ...

Circles through both poles are perpendicular to the celestial equator. To find the position of an object in the sky, just imagine a circle passing through the poles and the object.

The angle of this tilt is — to all intents and purposes — consistent all year round, and is currently fixed with the north celestial pole pointing close to Polaris, the current north star.

Meanwhile the south celestial pole of the axis of the heavens is located in a region of the sky in which there is not even a single modestly bright star to mark its location. The south celestial ...

It will graze past the Earth close to the north celestial pole at a distance of about 26 million miles on February 1 this year. As well as the stunning green color, the comet has a yellow dust ...