As Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun appears from our perspective to follow an imaginary line called the ecliptic that circles the celestial sphere. The Moon and planets all travel near the ecliptic ...

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Precession causes Earth’s poles to trace a circle on the celestial sphere, shifting our current North Star, Polaris, nearer to or farther from the North Celestial Pole every 13,000 years.

The project, funded in part by NASA, brings scientifically accurate visualizations of objects in the celestial sphere, including planets, satellites and other NASA missions.

By imagining Earth at the center of a celestial sphere, he used a coordinate system similar to latitude and longitude, which had recently been devised, to measure the precise positions of the stars.

Apart from being the oldest sculpture of Atlas found to date, the work is significant because it shows the first known representation of the celestial sphere. It depicts the night sky as seen from ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of stars and millions of distant galaxies.