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Constellations
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All you ever wanted to know about the Big Dipper
Stats:
- Name: Ursa Major
- Meaning: Great Bear
- Number of Stars: 19
- Looks like:
Also known as...
Mythology:
- Big Dipper
- Plough
- Wagon
- Chariot
- Coffin
- Butcher's Cleaver
- Zeus's wife (Hera) was jealous & turned Callisto into a bear.
- Her son Arcas became a hunter.
- Zeus turned Arcas into a smaller bear to prevent him from killing his mother.
- Zeus sent them both into the sky by their tails.
What to Include:
The Big Dipper
- Not a constellation
- Considered an asterism
- Only includes 7 stars
- Most well-known due to "pointer stars" which point to Polaris
- Name of constellation
- Meaning of name
- Nickname
- Number of stars
- What it looks like
- When it is visible
- Mythology
- Interesting facts
- Specific stars
- Cultural signficance
- Other
How does the celestial sphere hold up its pants?
With a constellation belt!
Exploring the Stars
The Constellations
What are constellations?
- Configurations of stars named in honor of mythological characters or great heroes
- There are 88 total
- Divide the sky into units
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Constellations
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