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 ...

Long exposures of the sky create star trails as Earth rotates. Polaris, at the North Celestial Pole, is the only star that remains a point in such images. Credit: robin_24 (Flickr, CC BY 2.0) ...

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.

This article was originally published with the title “The Celestial Pole Photographed” in SA Supplements Vol. 39 No. 1011supp (May 1895), p. 16154 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican05181895-16154asupp ...

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.

Because Earth’s rotational axis wobbles, that star is getting closer: Polaris and the North Celestial Pole will continue to close to within some 27′ of each other in the year 2100 before ...

Several star patterns are arranged around the pole and not very far from it. These are the circumpolar constellations. They can appear high or low in the sky as they wheel around the North Star ...

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 ...

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 ...