Constellations

Stars are made of hot burning gases. What are stars made of? Stars are made of hot burning gases.

What colors can stars be?

Why are the stars different colors? The color of the star tells you its temperature. If you put a piece of metal in a fire, it would turn a dark red first, then orange, next yellow, and finally a bluish-white as it heated up.

A group of stars that seems to form a picture is called a constellation.

There are 88 recognized constellations. Scientists don’t think of them as pictures. They just use them as sections of a sky map.

One of the most famous constellations is the Big Dipper.

The 12 signs of the zodiac are also famous constellations.

The 12 Zodiac signs seem to circle the Earth.

Aquarius

Aries

Cancer

Capricorn

Gemini

Leo

Libra

Pisces

Sagittarius

Scorpio

Taurus

Virgo

Orion is one of the easier constellations to find Orion is one of the easier constellations to find. Look for the 3 stars that make up his belt.

Draco the dragon

The constellation names we used were named by the Greeks and Romans thousands of years ago. They sat around the campfire telling stories about their heroes, gods, and godesses using the pictures in the sky.

Hercules