These stars wrap around Polaris, the North Star, so you must look north. There’s more good news because since Ursa Minor is a circumpolar constellation—i.e., it’s “up” all night—you ca ...

The Canpous star resides in the constellation Carina and can be seen with naked eyes during dark skies. It is best seen in Southern Hemisphere. In the constellation Boötes, easily identifiable in ...

But in one patch of sky, there was a cluster of stars that never disappeared. They called these the Indestructibles. We call them the circumpolar stars, because they circle the North Pole of the ...

It seems the ancient Egyptians believed that the unchanging place in the sky occupied by the circumpolar stars was the location of the afterlife. And they constructed the Great Pyramid to send the ...