Name that constellation
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I was pointing out some constellations to my daughter the other night, the main ones I know, others I was using the Sky map app.
There was one that took our interest that we couldn't work out what it was. It's too small to get a fix from the app. Its a cluster of lots of stars very tight together, shapped kinda like a squashed P. It's positioned to the right of Orion as you look at it. A little way to the right. Quite faint.
Can someone tell us what it's called please?
There was one that took our interest that we couldn't work out what it was. It's too small to get a fix from the app. Its a cluster of lots of stars very tight together, shapped kinda like a squashed P. It's positioned to the right of Orion as you look at it. A little way to the right. Quite faint.
Can someone tell us what it's called please?
Unlike most constellations - which are simple "join the dot exercises" of stars which are not really close to each other, the Pleiades is a genuinely associated group of stars known as an "open cluster". It is a group of hundreds of young stars which are emerging out of their birth nebula. Telescopic images show the gas cloud still surrounds the cluster.
No, sadly not.
Another Arion from Greek mythology was a human poet & musician who escaped from pirates on a dolphin (as you do). This particular dolphin was later "catasterised" (placed among the stars) as the constellation Delphinus (Latin for dolphin).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinus
Another Arion from Greek mythology was a human poet & musician who escaped from pirates on a dolphin (as you do). This particular dolphin was later "catasterised" (placed among the stars) as the constellation Delphinus (Latin for dolphin).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinus
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