• Question: what is your favourite constellation and why? is there anything unique about it?

    Asked by eyas532eger27 to Dr Shikhar Mittal, ryanbegley, maiajones, emilywalls, christinaschoettler, Ben D on 10 Dec 2025.
    • Photo: Christina Schoettler

      Christina Schoettler answered on 10 Dec 2025:

      My favourite is the Orion Constellation. I like the old stories around it, that it is the hunter that is hunting the seven sisters (which is the Pleiades constellation), which Orion roughly points towards. It also features an amazing science target, the Orion Nebula Cluster, which is a very young star-forming region.

    • Photo: Emily Walls

      Emily Walls answered on 18 Dec 2025:

      Great question, I don’t really have a favourite constellation but if I had to pick one it would be the big dipper because I can easily find it on the sky!

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