First Friday: Colorful Constellations

People have long used stars as tools for navigation and the grouping of stars in constellations to better understand the world.  With the advent of modern telescopes, we can understand more about the identity of the stars that make up the constellations. Discover how astronomers classify the stars according to size, age, color, and composition.

As stars grow, age, expand, they change into many different forms such as red giants, white dwarfs, supernovae and black holes and others. Learn more about these celestial phenomena with hands-on activities, films, art installations and presentations. Visit us on the Observation Deck for a collection of constellation stories in a new edition of Native Skies Star Stories and a series of presentations from the Eastbay Astronomical Society.