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Constellations
About Constellations
What are constellations?
Constellations are recognised patterns of stars forming conspicuous configurations of objects or creatures in the night sky. The word, constellation, is from the Latin word 'constellacio', meaning a set of stars and it only came into use in Middle English during the 14th century. There are 88 official constellations. These 88 patterns are essentially imagined figures or shapes with only a certain basis in the observable sky.
Constellations are useful in tracking artificial satellites and in assisting astronomers and navigators to locate certain stars.
Origin of constellations
The earliest Greek work that set out to treat the constellations as constellations, of which
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