Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?......

What is Constellation

When you go outside on a dark clear night, looke up into the night sky and see hundreds if not thousands of stars randomly spread across the sky. How do you tell one from another? The answers is you learn the Comstellation. At night, you can see many glittering objects in the sky. These objects are called star. A group of stars that form pattern is called a Constellation. We can see millioons of dots of light ib thr night sky. Most of these are stars. Observe the patterns formed by these are stars. Do you know how important they are?

Saturday, April 16, 2011

ZODIAC


A band around the sky about 18?wide, centered on the ecliptic, in which the Sun, Moon, and planets move.

The band is divided into 12 signs of the zodiac, each 30° long, that were named by the ancient Greeks after the constellations that used to occupy these positions; "zodiac" means "circle of animals," and only Libra is inanimate. Over the past 2,000 years, precession has moved the constellations eastward by over 30° so that they no longer coincide with the old signs.

The 12 constellations of the zodiac are:



FROM: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/Z/zodiac.html
             http://journals.jevon.org/zodiac.php
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