Civilizations across the globe had been marking constellations for centuries and the Greeks worked to consolidate works from ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, and Assyrian astronomers. The Greek-based ...

Never mind if Pegasus didn’t look like a horse; Greek navigators at sea, and farmers on land, would connect the constellation to their time and place. The Greek myths are a veritable orgy of ...

M15 is 33,600 light years distant. Only three of the four stars of the Great Square are actually part of Pegasus; one, known as Alpheratz, is within the adjoining constellation Andromeda.

No matter how you see the constellations Pegasus and Andromeda, the saga of how the lovely princess found herself tied to a flying horse’s rear end is part of the great Greek mythological story ...

Pegasus is the seventh largest constellation in our sky. Many of the brightest stars have Arabic names. For example; Markab (Alpha Pegasi), apparent magnitude 2.5, meaning the saddle of the horse ...

The Greek constellation names don’t stray far from ancient Greek mythology. No less than 20 of the 88 names have a strong tie to mythology and even many of the animals also tie in mythology ...

No matter how you see the constellations Pegasus and Andromeda, the saga of how the lovely princess found herself tied to a flying horse’s rear end is part of the great Greek mythological story ...