Fifth Grade
Worksheets
Star Groups
Long ago, people thought stars made pictures in the sky. They told stories about the pictures they imagined. Groups of stars are called constellations. Orion is a famous one. The word "constellation" comes from two Latin words. The two words mean "stars" and "together." Constellations are groups of stars that are seen together. The stars form patterns. There are 88 named constellations. You see different groups of stars in summer and in the winter's night sky. Every night as the hours pass by, the stars seem to move across the sky. This is because .....
