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Far from any lights, the sky fills with stars. Drawn from real star positions; bigger dots are brighter stars. See it from a city or the suburbs in the app.

✨ Constellation

Cassiopeia

A bright W of five stars, named after a boastful queen.

Name means: A queen from Greek myth
Best seen: November evenings
Where to see it: The northern half of Earth, and the tropics south of the equator
Brightest star: Navi
Stars in the pattern: 5

Did you know?

In the myth, Queen Cassiopeia boasted about her beauty and was placed in the sky on a throne that circles the pole.
It sits on the opposite side of Polaris from the Big Dipper, so when one is low the other is high.

More NASA photos of CassiopeiaStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app

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All of night sky

Orion The Hunter, with three bright stars in a row for his belt. Ursa Major The Great Bear, home of the Big Dipper. Ursa Minor The Little Bear, with Polaris at the tip of its tail. Scorpius The Scorpion, with red Antares at its heart. Leo The Lion, whose head is a backwards question mark of stars. Taurus The Bull, with red Aldebaran as its glowing eye.

Facts: Star patterns: d3-celestial (IAU figures, Hipparcos star data). Stories: traditional Greek and Roman myths. Open Cassiopeia in the app.