December Birthstone The December birthstone is Blue Topaz. December Birthstone: Blue Topaz Birthstone Color: Blue As cool and inviting as a blue lake on a blistering summer day, December's birthstone is derived from the Sanskrit word tapas, meaning fire.
Auriga. The northern constellation of Auriga is a beautiful, large pentagon shape situated along the Milky Way. It is a curiosity because it has no Gamma star â it shares it with Taurus.
Gienah Corvi is the right-hand star at the top of the box and one of the pointers to Spica (the other Algorab), as if Spica really needs such. Though the brightest star in the constellation, just over the second magnitude line to third (2.59), Bayer oddly gave it the Gamma designation, Alpha a fourth magnitude star beneath the right-hand side of the prominent box.