Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. It was included in Ptolemy’s 48 constellations, and is counted among the 88 modernconstellations. Canis Major contains Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, known as the “dog star”. It is bright because of its proximity to the Solar System.
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Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. It was included in Ptolemy’s 48 constellations, and is counted among the 88 modernconstellations. Canis Major contains Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, known as the “dog star”. It is bright because of its proximity to the Solar System. In ancient Mesopotamia, Sirius, named KAK. SI. DI by the Babylonians, was seen as an arrow aiming towards Orion, while the southern stars of Canis. Major and a part of Puppis were viewed as a bow, named BAN in the Three Stars Each tablets, dating to around 1100 BC. In medieval Arab astronomy, the constellation became al-Kalb al-Akbar, “the Greater Dog”, transcribed as Alcheleb Alachbar by 17th century writer Edmund Chilmead. The Military Market was a circular pattern of stars containing Nu Xi1 and Xi, and some stars from Lepus the Hare. The stars of the Military Market were interpreted as the celestial Bow and Arrow, which was interpreted as Delta, Eta, Kappa and Canis Delta. Alternatively, the Celestial Wolf was Tiānláng, denoting invasion and plunder, denoting the Wolf and plunder of the Southeast of the United States. In Chinese astronomy the modern constellation is located in the Verion Bird, where the stars were classified in several separate asterisms of stars. One of them, called Merzem, includes the stars of canis Major and canis Minor and is the herald of two weeks of hot weather.
Among the Merazig of Tunisia, shepherds note six constellation that mark the passage of the dry, hot season. One of these includes Canis Minor, which is the sign of the end of the summer. The red hypergiant VY Canis majoris is one of the largest stars known. The neutron star RX J0720. 4-3125 has a radius of a mere 5 km. It is also believed that the constellation contains the stars Omicron2, Beta or Nu2, Nu1, Nu2 and Nu3, although it is uncertain which stars were depicted in the Chinese asterism of the Wild Cockerelus, although some have suggested Nu1 and Pi might have been them, while Nu2 or Beta2 may have been Nu1 or Nu3. The constellation is also known as Canis minor, which means ‘the lesser dog’ or ‘the smaller dog’ in Latin. The Milky Way passes through the constellation, and several open clusters lie within its borders, most notably M41. In contrast, the other bright stars in the constellation are stars of great distance and high luminosity. At magnitude 1. 5, Epsilon CanisMajoris is the second-brightest star of the constellation and the brightest source of extreme ultraviolet radiation in the evening sky. The ancient Greeks replaced the bow and arrow depiction with that of a dog, and referred to the dog Laelaps.
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