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How To Use Asterism In A Sentence

  • In Greek myth, the Big Dipper asterism represents the hindquarters and tail of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
  • Pisces is a curious star group; the stars are dim, scattered, and don't form a distinctive asterism.
  • Orion and the Great Bear are two of the most prominent asterisms visible from the northern hemisphere.
  • Cygnus - the Swan - is a cluster of stars, or asterism, easily visible in the summer skies.
  • The chart is written on paper - a Chinese invention - and is a representation of the complete sky with some 1,585 stars grouped into 257 clusters or ‘asterisms’.
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  • An asterism is a star formation that is not an officially recognized constellation.
  • They're located about 15° west-northwest of the bright red star Aldebaran, which in turn is at the end of one of the arms of a V-shaped asterism, the Hyades open cluster, which points southwest.
  • If the favourable asterism is in its ascendancy and if it alone exerts an influence over the new-born, then its good influence will increase.
  • Orion contains an asterism or well-known star pattern called the ‘saucepan’ or ‘iron pot’.
  • n. - gem cut so as to show asterism. asteriated adj. - having star-like rays. Xml's Blinklist.com

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