Who invented the southern constellations?

Scorpius is one of the most distinctive and easily recognised constellations in the night sky, and has captivated the imaginations of stargazers for millennia. It’s renowned not only for its red, brig

plant and animal samples during his Antarctica expedition ...

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It’s a tiny atoll in the Seychelles, but Cosmoledo is an astonishing place to go birding, writes David Tipling

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

The faint, rather indistinct constellation Camelopardalis is supposed to represent a giraffe. It sits between Polaris (Alpha (α) Ursae Minoris) and Capella (Alpha (α) Aurigae). Our first target is loc