Any constellation-seeker needs good maps or apps to help find these patterns in the starry chaos of the night sky. One of the ...

But for thousands of years, people from all over the globe have tried ... currently recognizes 88 official constellations, which were named throughout the ages by astronomers from Babylonia ...

Covering the entire sky from the North to the South Celestial Pole, and showing all 88 constellations, it is also a general sky atlas showing variable, double and multiple stars, and the Milky Way.

(Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images) There are 88 constellations of stars in the night sky—all codified by the International Astronomical Union—so why bother looking for one that doesn’t ...