The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, on Hawaiiâs Big Island, has been monitoring volcanoes since 1912ânearly four decades before Hawaii became a state. Today itâs considered one of the worldâs leading observatories. Yet thereâs little coordination between even the best observatories in the United States.
An asterisk (*; from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek á¼ÏÏÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎºÎ¿Ï, asteriskos, little star) is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star.
An asterism is a Pattern of stars that are not part of the constellation. Their speed is different from the constellation. Their position drifts and will individually be varying in position in the sky.t's a group of stars within the Ursa Major constellation. Another asterism is the Pleiades, which is a small cluster of stars found in Taurus. Edit: And to be precise, a constellation actually refers to an area of the sky and not the pattern of stars.