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Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the Southern celestial hemisphere. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Its old astronomical symbol is (♐︎). Its name is Latin for "archer".
Sagittarius (constellation)}} is a {}-based template to be used at the bottom of articles about astronomical objects beyond the Solar System, located in the constellation of Sagittarius. The template is divided into categories of stars , star clusters , nebulae , exoplanets , galaxies , galaxy clusters , and a miscellaneous "other" category.
The Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, or SWEEPS, was a 2006 astronomical survey project using the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys - Wide Field Channel to monitor 180,000 stars for seven days to detect extrasolar planets via the transit method.
The sky disc is centered on the north pole star, with Ursa Minor depicted as a jackal. [3] An inner disc is composed of constellations showing the signs of the zodiac. [a] Some of these are represented in the same Greco-Roman iconographic forms as their familiar counterparts (e.g. the Ram, Taurus, Scorpio, and Capricorn), [b] whilst others are shown in a more Egyptian form: Aquarius is ...
The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (also known as Messier 24 and IC 4715) is a star cloud in the constellation of Sagittarius approximately 600 light years wide, which was catalogued by Charles Messier in 1764. [4] The stars, clusters and other objects comprising M24 are part of the Sagittarius or Sagittarius-Carina arms of the Milky Way galaxy ...
Messier 25, also known as IC 4725, is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Sagittarius.The first recorded observation of this cluster was made by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745 and it was included in Charles Messier's list of nebulous objects in 1764. [6]