It was "Arktos" to the ancient Greeks. (The word "arctic" today relates to the connection between these circumpolar stars and northern latitudes.) And some Native American tribes saw three hunters ...

But in one patch of sky, there was a cluster of stars that never disappeared. They called these the Indestructibles. We call them the circumpolar stars, because they circle the North Pole of the ...

It seems the ancient Egyptians believed that the unchanging place in the sky occupied by the circumpolar stars was the location of the afterlife. And they constructed the Great Pyramid to send the ...

Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...