Not one, but two exploding stars are currently visible to the naked eye in the southern night sky, a cosmic coincidence ...

If you live in the northern hemisphere, there are a few staple constellations that you're probably rather familiar with: Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, and Orion, among plenty of others.

A rare nova, V462 Lupi, is making a bright appearance in the night sky in the Lupus constellation. Here's what to know.

Centaurus A (), located some 12 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus the Centaur, is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the night sky and hosts an exceptionally powerful supermassive ...

Space Time-space travel? The mysterious tunnel connecting our solar system to Centaurus discovered by scientists. Scientists mapping the bubble our solar system finds itself in made a new ...

Constellations therefore exist almost entirely in our perception, not as a physical reality. But they’re tremendously useful. ... which is in the constellation of Centaurus).

You might have also heard it called “Centaurus”, the name of a constellation and given to BA.2.75 by a Twitter user. The World Health Organization has classified BA.2.75 as a variant of ...

"Centaurus," an unofficial nickname for BA.2.75, ... Nobody’s getting it mixed up with a constellation,” said Hodcroft, who was part of the group that brainstormed nomenclature.

Also known as Centaurus, BA.2.75 was first discovered in India early this spring and was christened by a Twitter user who decided to name the subvariant after a constellation.

This chart shows the southern constellation of Centaurus and marks most of the stars visible to the unaided eye on a clear dark night. The dwarf star PDS 70 is marked with a red circle.

The patch of sky containing V462 Lupi is located in the constellation Lupus, close to the bright stars Delta Lupi and Kappa Centauri, from the neighboring constellation Centaurus.