What is a constellation and can you name six of them?
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It's a cluster of stars that mankind has connected with imaginary lines to make a picture or outline of some thing...all twelve of the zodiac signs (Taurus, Leo ,Gemini, etc.) are constellations.
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constellations are named by the ancient greeks, so naturally they name them after mythological figures.
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All the objects in the Milky Way Galaxy orbit their common center of mass, called the Galactic Center. It includes the constellations Sagittarius, Scorpius, Ophiuchus and Scutum. For a great link that gives you a lot of specifics, including a map of the center check the sources below.
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stars, planets, comets, meteors
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No sense in repeating others...\nTo add onto Tish P's answers:\n13) Next text\n15) Kodiak Zodiac
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The link in the first answer doesn't work.\n\nOnly some of the stars in this constellation have names: \nAlrisha (Alpha Psc), aka Alrescha [Al Rescha, Rescha, El Rischa, Al Richa] or Kaitain or Okda (= the ropes).\nOkda (= Knot) \nFum al Samakah (Beta Psc)(=Mouth of the fish) \nTorcularis Septentrionalis (Omicron Psc) (=Of the northern wine/oil press)\nAlpherg or Kullat-Nunu \nvan Maanen's star
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Cluster.\n\nEDIT: constellations are stars that make a connect-the-dots type shape in the sky. However, the stars that make up a constellation can be VERY far apart. A star cluster is a situation where two or more stars are gravitationally bound to each other.
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The Orion Arm is the arm of the Milky Way galaxy that our solar system is in  (The arms of the Milky Way are named after constellations).  No galaxies to be found there.  The constellation Orion does have arms, but they are not well-defined, so one couldn't find a number of galaxies in that either.  The constellation Orion is well-defined, and one could in principal find the number of galaxies there.  I don't know what that number is.  \n\nFor a diagram showing the Orion arm and the other arms, see:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Arm\n\nThere's also an "Orion's Arm" fictional world-building project, but I don't think that's what you mean:\n\nhttp://www.orionsarm.com/main.html
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There are more stars than we can count.  Most of them have planets.   Most of those planets have moons.
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Yes, there are a few of them, I beleive they are called Quasars, and they fluctuate through the color spectrum. I see one a lot at my camping spot in the summer. I dont have my star chart right now, or i could tell you more about it.
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only a few galaxies have names: the sombrero, the milky way, andromeda, the black eye, the pinwheel, the small and large malgentic clouds, the whirlpool, and the spindle are all i know of.\n\nMost go by NGC #### in the new star catalouges.\n\nand we only have found a few galaxies.  There are still almost unlimited more!
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NORTHERN HEMISPHERE CONSTELLATIONS -\nhttp://cybnet.co.za/northern.htm\n\nSOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CONSTELLATIONS -\nhttp://www.vb-tech.co.za/southern.htm
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It's my understanding that we don't belong to a constellation, but a galaxy. This would be the Milky Way galaxy. Constellations refer to the divisions of the sky from the earth. The zodiacs are constellations, Virgo, Gemini, Taurus.
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Greetings,\n\nHere are some links you might find useful.\n\nChinese:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_constellation\nhttp://www.chinapage.com/astronomy/syho/syho.html\n\nLakota Native Americans (midwest -U.S.):\nhttp://www.kstrom.net/isk/stars/startabs.html\n\nNative Americans (misc.):\nhttp://eev2.liu.edu/e3/stargazer/native.htm\n\nEgyptian:\nhttp://www.egyptologyonline.com/astronomy.htm\nhttp://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/r/drn116/egypt.html\n\nHope some of those help\n\n-matt
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Some interesting galaxy names:  Milky Way, Andromeda, Tadpole, Whirlpool, Sombrero, Black Eye, Draco Dwarf, Fornax, Triangulum, Spider, Zwicky.
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Check out these sites:\n\nhttp://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Cepheus.html\n\nhttp://www.astronomical.org/portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=20\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheus_(constellation)
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There are 81 stars in the constellation Orion:\n\nStars with apparent magnitude of brighter than 3: 8\nStars visible to the naked eye: 75