Created by: abbeygrech
Number of Blossarys: 7
Aquila is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird who carried Zeus's/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology.
Only two bright stars of Argo - seen to the left of Canis Major - are visible in Britain; the others, including Canopus the next star in brightness to Sirius, are too far south.
Capella is the brightest star of the constellation of Auriga, which contains four other bright stars.One might wonder what connection Capella (the little goat) has with the Charioter, but from the ...
Altair and his two companions point downwards to the two stars, the western star of the zodiacal constellation of Capricornus.
This constellation appears in the heavens shaped like a W - one half being more flattened than the other. Its place is easily found when we know the Pole Star and the Plough.
The constellation of Draco, the dragon, is a beautiful line of stars sweeping gracefully round between the Plough and Ursa Major.
A line drawn from Aldebaran between the horns of the Bull, leads to two bright stars belonging to the constellation of Gemini. The uper one is called Castor, and the lower one, the righter of the ...