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CONSTELLATIONS Some of the Known Constellations and Stars

A constellation is also known as a pattern of stars in the night sky. The The International Astronomical Union ( IAU) made a list of the official
word is modern constellations. There are already 88 constellations were
from the Latin constellacio, meaning a set of stars. There are 88 official discovered by the ancient
constellations. Greeks.

Thousands of years
ago, ancient
astronomers, as
they studied stars
in the night sky,
they saw different Stars that resemble an
images of objects, old-fashioned water dipper form the constellation Big Dipper. It is a
animals, and part of an even bigger constellation called Ursa Major or Big Bear.
heroes in Roman
and Greek
mythology in the Ursa Major resembles a Big Bear and is the third largest constellation in
grouping of stars. the night sky. You can easily locate Ursa Major because it contains the
They identify at seven stars called the Plough. The Big Dipper is made up of seven stars.
least 88 Four of its stars constitute a bowl while its three stars resembles a
constellations, 39 handle.
in the Southern
Hemisphere and
49 in the Northern Ursa Minor or the little bear contains a group of
Hemisphere. stars known as the Little Dipper. The handle of the
dipper serves as the little bear’s tail and the dipper’s
cup, is the bear’s thigh. The most famous star in the
Ursa Minor is Polaris. It is also called the North Star
since its position always points to the earth’s north
pole.
The Big Dipper and the Little Dipper are not
constellations but are asterisms. An asterism is a part
of a constellation that represents another object
within the pattern
Draco- the dragon-Draco the dragon is on of the few constellations that
really looks like itself.
-His story is that he used
Cassiopeia consists of to guard the golden apple
five stars that seem to form tree in Hesperides garden
the letter W. It represents
the queen Cassiopeia of
the mythical kingdom of
Ethiopia.

The Orion constellation is located


at the celestial equator east of
Taurus. It is visible from January Hydra is also known as
to March. It is represented in the Sea Serpent.
pictorial charts as the figure of This constellation is seen
Orion, the hunter in Greek in the southern
Mythology. Orion consists of hemisphere and you can
several bright stars. Three bright see the it between January
stars represent his belt called and May. It represents a
Tatlong Maria. On Orion’s right giant water snake.
shoulder is a very famous red
supergiant star called Betelgeuse Hydra is the largest
is. Rigel is the bluish-white star is constellation in the sky. It was a giant best with the body of a dog and
located in Orion’s left knee. 100 snake like heads
Orion seems to move from east to
west because of the earth’s
rotation.
Sekularisasyon at ang Tatlong Paring Martir

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