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Famous Star Constellations Explained

The document discusses several constellations and the mythology associated with them, including: 1) Aries, representing the ram whose fleece became the Golden Fleece. 2) Canis Major, representing the famed Greek dog Laelaps. 3) Cassiopeia, who was a vain queen who boasted about her beauty. 4) Centaurus being the most magnificent of the southern constellations.

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Famous Star Constellations Explained

The document discusses several constellations and the mythology associated with them, including: 1) Aries, representing the ram whose fleece became the Golden Fleece. 2) Canis Major, representing the famed Greek dog Laelaps. 3) Cassiopeia, who was a vain queen who boasted about her beauty. 4) Centaurus being the most magnificent of the southern constellations.

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mythology actually The most star

CONSTELLATION bore Ganymede Constellaton


(Aquarius) up to
Centaurus-
Mt. Olympus.
Although Crux the
*Aries- Aries is the
Southern Cross is
ram whose fleece
probably more
became the Golden
famous in
a group of stars fleece.
northern latitudes,
forming a
*Canis Major- there is no
recognizable
Represents the question that
pattern that is Centaurus the
famed Greek dog
traditionally named Laelaps. Centaur is the
after its apparent most magnificent
form or identified *Cassiopeia- Was a
of the southern
with a mythological vain queen who
constellations. It's
often boasted
figure. Modern the ninth largest
about her beauty.
astronomers divide constellation and it
the sky into eighty- *Cygnus- At one contains two of the
eight constellations point Zeus ten brightest stars.
with defined morphed into a
boundaries. swan to seduce
Leda, mother of Joycie m.
Types of
both Gemini and
Constellation
Helen of troy. palattao
*Aquarius- is faint
9-socrates
and often hard to
find/see.
Science
*Aquila- was the
eagle that in Greek brochure

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