Constellations
- Type
- Star Formations
- Total Constellations
- 88
- Famous Constellations
- Orion, Draco, Leo, Ursa Major
- Constellations help us to find our way around the stars in the night sky, and create shapes, like joining dots, that we can quickly recognise.
- Find out what constellations are mentioned in the Bible, and what they may be called today. (Check out the Insight books for some ideas)
- Located in
- Night sky from Earth
- There are 88 constellations used to divide up the night sky from Earth.
- The Babylonians were known to have formed constellations out of patterns in the stars.
- The Bible mentions several constellations, some of which we can identify today.
- The first constellations could only be seen in the Northern Hemisphere as the stars in the south weren't visible.
