Auriga also contains three star clusters, or collections of hundreds or thousands of stars, known as M36, M37 and M38. They are visible with binoculars as fuzzy patches in the constellation.

The star in question is Capella, in the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer. Auriga is one of those star patterns whose exact origin is a hopeless mix of antique conceptions. We might call him ...

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One of the strangest constellations in the winter heavens is Auriga, the chariot driver with goats on his shoulder. It must have been quite a party when folks looked into the heavens and came up wi… ...

(Phys.org)—Astronomers have presented the results of new photometric and spectroscopic observations of the star V501 Aurigae (V501 Aur for short), providing new insights into the nature of this ...

The star is known as Epsilon Aurigae, which on our star maps marks the nose of Auriga the Chariot Driver. A lot of stars are known to periodically dim and brighten because they are regularly being ...

This star is normally magnitude 3.0, similar to the dimmer of the principal stars of the Big Dipper. When the star becomes partially eclipsed, it dims to magnitude 3.8.

The star Algol is a famous example and is easily watched by the unaided eye as it changes every 2.8 days, dropping from a fairly bright magnitude 2.1 to a ho-hum 3.4, and then back again.