Exploring the stars takes a creative turn with Draw the Night Sky, an interactive video game developed by Kennesaw State ...

Stars live longer than you expect. Driessen points out that many visible stars, including those in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, can live for billions of years.

The total number of stars that can be seen with the naked eye is 9,095, according to the Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Edition. This number includes both hemispheres of our planet, ...

Among those is the brightest star in Orion’s sword, designated HR1899 in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 45 Orionis by Flamsteed number, and Iota Orionis by Bayer’s Greek letter system.