Image: Taavi Niittee, the constellation Orion in the night sky (2019) · CC0
A Knaph story
The Story of Constellations
Why people joined the stars into pictures, where the names came from, and why we still use them
c. 1000 BCE – today
A clay tablet, a farmer's poem, a Persian book of stars, a Chinese map and an emu made of darkness. How people all over the world drew pictures in the same stars, and learned that the pictures belong to where we stand.
A Knaph story
The Story of Constellations
Why people joined the stars into pictures, where the names came from, and why we still use them
c. 1000 BCE – today
A clay tablet, a farmer's poem, a Persian book of stars, a Chinese map and an emu made of darkness. How people all over the world drew pictures in the same stars, and learned that the pictures belong to where we stand.