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4 unusual facts about constellation


Biblical names of stars

The Bible names some half-dozen star-groups, but authorities differ widely as to their identity.

Man Size Love

"Man Size Love" was a huge hit single recorded by Klymaxx for the MCA label.

Sozvezdie

JSC Concern Sozvezdie (Russian for Constellation) is the leading Russian developer and manufacturer of electronic warfare, radio communications, electronic countermeasures systems and equipment.

The Men All Pause

"The Men All Pause" is a hit single recorded by Klymaxx for the MCA label.


10th Aerospace Defense Group

The ten stars placed in a Scorpius constellation formation over a scorpion alludes to a Greek mythological legend and is symbolic of deadly powers.

41st World Science Fiction Convention

The 41st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConStellation, was held September 1–5, 1983, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Aashaadha

In solar religious calendars, Āsāṛh begins with the Sun's entry into Cancer.

April in Quahog

Having learned of the impending doomsday, Mayor Adam West angrily writes an angry letter to outer space, expressing his intention of punching the constellation Orion.

Aurvandil

Guesses as to the identity of this star have included the polestar, the planet Venus, Sirius and the star Rigel which forms the toe of the constellation Orion, though if Aurvandil is to be identified with the constellation Orion one would expect to find Aurvandil himself being translated into the sky, not just his toe.

Babylonian star catalogues

#MULŠÍM.MAḪ šinūnūtu "The Great Swallow" (SW Pisces and Epsilon Pegasi)

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Her tresses were placed into the heavens as the Constellation Coma Berenices.

C59

Caldwell 59 (NGC 3242, the Ghost of Jupiter), a planetary nebula in the constellation Hydra

C68

Caldwell 68 (NGC 6729), a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Corona Australis

C87

Caldwell 87 (NGC 1261), a globular cluster in the constellation Horologium

Caprica

Capricornus, name of the constellation from which the term Caprica is derived

Case Closed: The Raven Chaser

Conan realizes that the crime scenes are ordered like the star constellation Ursa Major, making the last crime scene Shiba Park.

Castor et Pollux

The opera ends with the fête de l'univers ("Festival of the Universe") in which the stars, planets and sun celebrate the god's decision and the twin brothers are received into the Zodiac as the constellation of Gemini.

Château Cheval Blanc

The château remained in the family until 1998, when it was sold to Bernard Arnault, chairman of luxury goods group LVMH, and Belgian businessman Albert Frère, with Pierre Lurton installed as estate manager, a constellation similar to that of the group's other chief property Château d'Yquem.

Coathanger

Brocchi's Cluster (astronomy), a random grouping of stars located in the constellation Vulpecula near the border with Sagitta

Colin Stanley Gum

Gum 12, a huge area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour.

Crab Nebula

The exact time of the comet's return required the consideration of perturbations to its orbit caused by planets in the Solar System such as Jupiter, which Clairaut and his two colleagues Jérôme Lalande and Nicole-Reine Lepaute carried out more precisely than Halley, finding that the comet should appear in the constellation of Taurus.

Dagon

Likewise, in the tale depicting the origin of the constellation Capricornus, the Greek god of nature Pan became a fish from the waist down when he jumped into the same river after being attacked by Typhon.

Dôn

At least two of Dôn's children also have astronomical associations: Caer Gwydion ("The fortress of Gwydion") is the traditional Welsh name for the Milky Way, and Caer Arianrhod ("The Fortress of Arianrhod") being the constellation of Corona Borealis.

El Fuerte de Samaipata

One could have looked along the parallel lines, standing on the place of observation in front of the Inca-wall at the foot of El Fuerte and watched the parallel rising of two planets at sunrise on August 20, 1066 above both lines against the background of constellation Leo: Venus and Jupiter.

Engelhardt family

The Engelhardt name has been attached to a scientific institute in Moscow, the observatory of Kazan University, the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main railway station in Smolensk, a crater on the moon, an asteroid, and a star in the constellation Cygnus.

Eutelsat 8 West C

The satellite was part of Eutelsat's Hot Bird constellation at a longitude of 13 degrees east, until it was relocated to 8 degrees east between July and August 2013.

Haedi

Haedi, (the Kids), is a classical and easily observed pair of stars in the constellation of Auriga.

HD 189733

HD 189733, also catalogued as V452 Vulpeculae, is a binary star system approximately 63 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).

Heliosphere

The red giant star Mira in the constellation Cetus has been shown to have both a cometlike debris tail of ejecta from the star and a distinct shock in the direction of its movement through space (at over 130 kilometers per second).

IC 1101

It is 1.07 billion light years away in the constellation of Virgo and is classified as a cD class of galaxy.

M109

Messier 109 (M109), a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

M36

Messier 36, an open star cluster in the constellation Auriga

M38

Messier 38, an open star cluster in the constellation Auriga

M52

Messier 52 (M52), an open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia

M72

Messier 72, a globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius

Major Bloodnok

In the DreamWorks film Shrek, a reference is made to the Major when the title character points out an Ogre constellation known as 'Bloodnok The Flatulent'.

Nabarun Bhattacharya

It is more familiarly known as the 'Dog star', owing to its prominent position in its constellation, Canis Major (Big Dog).

NGC 3738

NGC 3738 is a dwarf galaxy lying in the constellation of Ursa Major, located about 12 million light-years from the Sun, and belongs to the Messier 81 group of galaxies.

NGC 61

NGC 61 is a pair of Lenticular galaxies, NGC 61-A (or NGC 61-1) and NGC 61-B (or NGC 61-2) in the constellation Cetus.

Poeticon astronomicon

During the Renaissance, the work was attributed to the Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus who lived during the 1st century BC However, the fact that the book lists most of the constellations north of the ecliptic in the same order as Ptolemy's Almagest (written in the 2nd century AD) has led many to believe that a more recent Hyginus created the text.

Rick Sirvaitis

He has been a consultant to such clients as the NFL Network, the Television Bureau, Gemstar-TV Guide International and Google TV Ads among others and has most recently been retained as an Entrepreneur in Residence for Constellation Ventures.

Salt Lake Temple

On the west side of the temple the Big Dipper appears, which represents how the constellation was used to help travelers find the North Star and help them on their way, in the same way the temple is viewed as a symbol to help people find their way back to Heaven.

Sather Tower

--Professor "of" Greek?-->Greek Isaac Flag, "We ring, we chime, we toll, / Lend ye the silent part / Some answer in the heart, / Some echo in the soul." The current bells range from small 19 pound bells to the 10,500 pound "Great Bear Bell," which tolls on the hour and features bas-relief carvings of bears as well as the constellation Ursa Major.

SDSS J130114+2743

SDSS J130114+2743 is a galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, host galaxy of SN 2005ap.

Sigma Hydrae

It is also known by the proper name Minchir, and appears as Minchir es-schudscha' on Bode's large star atlas, Uranographia, which is derived from the Arabic Minkhir al-Shuja‘, "the Nostril of Hydra", for this star.

Slightly Stoopid

Utilizing the technology of their studio's Constellation sound system, Slightly Stoopid had the privilege to invite some of their close friends and family down to record Live at Roberto's TRI Studios, performing alongside Weir as well as Karl Denson, Don Carlos, Ivan Neville, Ian Neville and host Tommy Chong.

Soyuz 13

The first satellite UV spectrogram of a planetary nebula (IC 2149 in Auriga) was obtained, revealing lines of aluminium and titanium - elements not previously observed in objects of that type.

Starry Plough

Big Dipper, The seven brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, aka "The Plough"

Sun Constellation System

A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the University of Oslo.

Ursa Major Moving Group

The Ursa Major Moving Group was discovered in 1869 by Richard A. Proctor, who noticed that, except for Dubhe and Alkaid (Eta Ursae Majoris), the stars of the Big Dipper asterism all have proper motions heading towards a common point in Sagittarius.

WEGA

Sony says that the FD Trinitron WEGA was named after a star ('Vega' in English) in the Lyra constellation, and made no reference to the original WEGA firm.

Yahoo M45

M45 is named after the Messier catalog number of the constellation commonly known as the Pleiades.


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