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Pisces and Taurus Constellation Overview

The document summarizes four constellations: Aries, located between Pisces and Taurus, symbolized by a ram's horns; Virgo, the second largest constellation symbolized by ♍ and easily found through its brightest star Spica; Canis Minor, a small northern constellation included as an asterism of two stars by Ptolemy; and Cassiopeia, named after the vain queen in Greek mythology and one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations that remains today.

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Pisces and Taurus Constellation Overview

The document summarizes four constellations: Aries, located between Pisces and Taurus, symbolized by a ram's horns; Virgo, the second largest constellation symbolized by ♍ and easily found through its brightest star Spica; Canis Minor, a small northern constellation included as an asterism of two stars by Ptolemy; and Cassiopeia, named after the vain queen in Greek mythology and one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations that remains today.

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Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac.

It is
located in the northern celestial hemisphere between
Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. The name
Aries is Latin for ram, and its symbol is, representing a
ram's horns.
Virgo is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name
is Latin for virgin, and its symbol is ♍. Lying between Leo to the
west and Libra to the east, it is the second-largest constellation in
the sky (after Hydra) and the largest constellation in the zodiac. It
can be easily found through its brightest star, Spica.

Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern


celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was
included as an asterism, or pattern, of two stars in
Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and it is counted among the
88 modern constellations.
Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the
vain Queen Cassiopeia in Greek mythology, who boasted about
her unrivaled beauty. Cassiopeia was one of the 48 constellations
listed by the 2nd-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy, and it
remains one of the 88 modern constellations today.

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