It’s known as the Plough in England and the Casserole in France; in America, we call it the Big Dipper.
Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our solar system, but it’s so dim that it cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Originally, the Milky Way wasn’t the name of our galaxy, but the name of a much smaller belt of stars that form a whiteish glow across Earth’s sky at night.
The “”dog days”” of summer are so-named because the period marks the time of year that Sirius (the dog star) is seen rising and seting with the Sun.
Although they appear close in the sky when viewed from Earth, stars in some constellations are actually thousands of light years away from one another.
