Constellations

Constellations are a group of stars that form a pattern or picture in the sky. They first started from the Greeks who created myths about them. They were reconized Arabs, Egyptians,and Babylonians.There are many constellations {88} in the sky. The most famous Constellation is Orion.Orion is The Great Hunter. There are other constellations too like the Big and Little Dipper. They also are called Ursa Major{Big Dipper}and Ursa Minor{Little Dipper}. Polaris{The North Star}was at the end of the Little Dipper. So Constellations were used to find your way from place to place. If you found the Big Dipper, in a parallel direction from the top right hand corner of it to the tail of the Little Dipper you would find the North star. There are many constellations here are a few.

Orion

The Great Hunter

Taurus

The Bull

Pegasus

The Flying Horse

Leo

The Lion

A few other constellations are Crux,Centaurus,and Hydra. Crux is the brightest constellation in the sky. It is aslo called the southern cross. Next,Centaurus is the constellation with the greatest number of visible stars. It has about 101 stars that you can see.Lastly,there is Hydra which is the water snake. This constellation is the largest one in the sky, it extends over 3.158% of the sky. There is also asterims,which are smaller star patterns within a constellation. As there was in the previos paragraph the Big Dipper, which is inside Ursa Major,the Little Dipper, which is inside Ursa Minor,Keystone which is inside the Hercules constellation, and the Pleiades which is inside Taurus.Constellations are aslo part of the twelve constellations of the Zodiac, They are

Aquaris

Aries

Cancer

Capricorn

Gemini

Leo

Libra

Pisces

Sagittarius

Scorpius

Taurus

Virgo

Constellations are also of northern and southern. In the northern hemisphere their are different constellations and in the southern hemisphere thier are different constellations. For example. The northern hemisphere has Orion and Draco{the Dragon}, and in the southern hemisphere they have constellations such as Hydra and Lepus{the Rabbit}.
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