But I’m not making anything up; Draco is real, and you should have little trouble finding this celestial dragon in a reasonably dark sky. To locate it, first identify the seven stars of the Big ...

Coiled around the northernmost segment of the axis of the heavens in this month’s Colorado sky is the very ancient constellation of Draco the Dragon. Skip to content. All Sections.

It’s between these two famous dippers that the dragon winds its way across the northern sky. Look for its string of stars that begins nearly between the Big Dipper’s pointer stars and Polaris.

The constellation Draco the Dragon is completely unwound in the northern sky and has been for some time. It looks more like a snake than a dragon, as if we really know what dragons look like.

The celestial dragon is in its ascendancy this week for early-evening observers. Have you ever wondered why a particular group of stars was made into a certain constellation? Sometimes a star ...

Draco is a circumpolar constellation, meaning it appears to revolve around Polaris, the North Star, once every 24 hours. Draco is, therefore, always visible in the Northern Hemisphere under clear ...

I have such mixed feelings about this time of the year. I really love summer, but every year it seems to go faster and faster. The star watching nut in me loves this time of the year because I can … ...

Greetings stargazers. There is a dragon in our night sky. Draco is one of the circumpolar constellations that is above the northern horizon year-round, but is especially well-positioned to pick ...

Draco the Dragon constellation. Getty A longtime studier of mythology, Thomas says that there's some "fascinating information" about Draco as a constellation, which has been "envisioned as a ...

Draco's brightest star, Thuban, was once and will again be our north star. 99¢/month for 3 months SUBSCRIBE NOW Show Search. Clear Search Query Submit Search. Read Today's Paper Sunday, June 30.