Astro Bob blog: How to find Hydra, the largest constellation in the sky Hydra the Water Snake is not only the largest of the 88 constellations, it's also the longest and one of the most ancient. Hydra ...

Hydra the Water Snake unfurls across the southern sky during late March and April evenings. The long constellation begins just below the bright planet Jupiter and coils toward the southeast, crossing ...

If you’ve been reading my column for a while, you know there are many kinds of critters represented among the ancient constellations. Today I’d like to share with you the story of one of the newer ...

If someone were to ask you which is the largest of all constellations, would you know? If you answered Hydra, you know more about the night sky than you admit. At this time of year, we can find Hydra, ...

The slithering head of Hydra, marked in red, moves its way into the northern latitudes, seen here of the pristine lake of Llyn y Fan Fach in the Brecon Beacons Dark Sky Reserve in Wales, U.K. In the ...

Follow the coils of Hydra this spring to see some of the most strikingly colorful stars in the sky. Out of the 88 constellations, more than half represent animals or hybrids of animals. Some of these ...

With the bright moon now completely out of our early evening night skies this week, we can look to the south to trace one of the most extensive of all star patterns: the long and mostly faint ...

When the International Astronomical Union set the astronomical boundaries for the 88 formally recognized constellations in 1927, the result was a wide variety of constellation sizes and shapes. The ...

Daylight Savings Time - which occurs at 2 a.m. March 10 this year, brings us more of our beloved daytime star, the Sun, in the early evening hours. It also means we have to be a little more patient to ...

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows an “eye” deep in the heart of space: The spiral galaxy NGC 2835, located in the constellation of Hydra in the southern hemisphere. This ...

MAKE a fist with your hand, then hold it out to the sky at arm’s length. The width covered by your fist will be around 10 degrees. Now imagine 10 of these in a row. The biggest constellation in the ...