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2. 88 Officially Recognized Constellations - NASA

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   Learn about the 88 officially recognized constellations and their significance in astronomy on NASA's webpage.

3. What are constellations? - NASA

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   Constellations can be a useful way to help identify positions of stars in the sky. Constellations have imaginary boundaries formed by "connecting the dots" and all the stars within those boundaries are labeled with the name of that constellation.

4. Constellations - NASA

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   2. Read several short examples of myths explaining constellations. There are several short myths on-line in the Universe activity section of StarChild. For a longer, more in-depth introduction, read a book such as Quillworker: A Cheyenne Legend by Terri Cohlene. 3. Show picture examples of constellations. Materials: • 8.5 by 11 white paper

5. How do planets and their moons get their names? - NASA

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   StarChild Question of the Month for August 2002 Question: How do planets and their moons get their names? Answer:

6. Who figured out the Earth is round? - NASA

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   Around 350 BC, the great Aristotle declared that the Earth was a sphere (based on observations he made about which constellations you could see in the sky as you travelled further and further away from the equator) and during the next hundred years or so, Aristarchus and Eratosthenes actually measured the size of the Earth!

7. Can you see other galaxies without a telescope? - NASA

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   Here is where to look during the month of November: Start at the northeast corner of the Great Square of Pagasus - the constellation Andromeda forms a "handle" attached to the northeast corner of the "bowl" formed by the Great Square.

8. StarChild: The Solar System - NASA

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   What is the solar system? It is our Sun and everything that travels around it. Our solar system is elliptical in shape.

9. StarChild Question of the Month for December 1999 - NASA

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   Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. A 9th planet had been looked for for some time. It was believed that such a planet had to exist in order to explain some odd things happening in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.

10. StarChild: The Milky Way - NASA

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    Our Sun is a star in the Milky Way Galaxy. If you were looking down on the Milky Way, it would look like a large pinwheel rotating in space.

11. Does the Sun move around the Milky Way? - NASA

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    StarChild Question of the Month for February 2000 Question: Does the Sun move around the Milky Way? Answer: Yes, the Sun - in fact, our whole solar system - orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.