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Week of April 27-May 3, 2025 If you've been following my column for a while, you know that there are many kinds of constellations in the sky. You also know that most of these look nothing like ...

Draco is so far north that it never completely sets when it circles around the north celestial pole as the Earth rotates on its axis. Around 9:30 p.m. look directly north and find Polaris.

The Draconid shower gets its name from the constellation Draco the Dragon. But these meteors are also sometimes called the Giacobinids after the Michel Giacobini, the French astronomer who ...

Use a sky mapping app to find the constellation Draco (the Dragon), to get an idea about from where in the sky they’ll appear to stream. Pick a place with a wide view of the night sky.

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 ...

Rather, Draco is the Latin word for dragon and the name of a constellation — a definition that initially caught Verta's attention.

The shower gets its name because the meteors appear to be coming from the direction of the constellation Draco the Dragon. Earth passes near the orbit of this comet in early October each year.

Also near Draco’s head is the foot of the constellation Hercules. One story says that Hercules, during one of his 12 labors, had to kill the dragon in order to steal the golden apples of Hesperides.

It’s between these two famous dippers that you will find the celestial dragon, a large and ancient constellation that appears nightly in the northern sky. It wraps itself around the north ...