Just about every indigenous culture on Earth developed a set of constellations in their sky. Those that we in the West recognize today are mostly those
Week of May 7-13, 2023 Just about every indigenous culture on Earth developed a set of constellations in their sky. Those that we in the West recognize today are mostly those created by the ancient Greek and early European explorers. These cover the entire celestial sphere and represent objects, animals and people from mythological stories.
There are a number of star clusters visible to the unaided eye, like the well-known Pleiades and Beehive star clusters, but there is only one naked-eye star cluster that forms a constellation all by itself..