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The Nighthawk Star (よだかの星, Yodaka no Hoshi) is a popular Japanese children's short story by Kenji Miyazawa, thought to have been written around 1921.It was a part of the Complete Works of Kenji Miyazawa, Vol. 5 (「宮沢賢治全集」 第5巻) published by Chikuma Bunko (ちくま文庫), [1] which was later updated to be a part of the Newly Collected Complete Works of Miyazawa ...
Johann Bayer's Uranometria showing the constellation Orion. Orion the Hunter is star lore created by the ancient Greeks. Star lore or starlore is the creating and cherishing of mythical stories about the stars and star patterns (constellations and asterisms); that is, folklore based upon the stars and star patterns.
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object. [1] The first constellations were likely defined in prehistory. People used them to relate stories of their beliefs, experiences, creation, and ...
As of 2008 The Stars: A New Way to See Them and a simplified presentation for children called Find the Constellations are still in print. A new edition of Find the Constellations was released in 2008, updated with modern fonts, the new status of Pluto, and some more current measurements of planetary sizes and orbital radii. [10]
The official constellation boundaries, as set by Eugène Delporte in 1930, are defined by a polygon of 14 segments. In the equatorial coordinate system , the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between 20 h 14 m 14.1594 s and 21 h 08 m 59.6073 s , while the declination coordinates are between +2.4021468° and +20.9399471°. [ 1 ]
The story has appeared many times in such diverse media as plays, poetry, novels, operas, classical and popular music, film, and paintings. A significant part of the northern sky contains several constellations named after the story's figures; in particular, the constellation Andromeda is named after her.
Creative Movement for PreK for youngest thespians will be Wednesday mornings Jan. 31-April 10 at Constellation Studios in Bloomington. New theater course for pre-kindergarten kids begins at ...
Triangulum is a small constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "triangle", derived from its three brightest stars, which form a long and narrow triangle.Known to the ancient Babylonians and Greeks, Triangulum was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy.