Complex Constellations
Perplexing Planets
Terms and Stuff
Best and Brightest Stars
Miscellaneous Mythology
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Although it is faint and difficult to see, this constellation represents a unicorn.

Monoceros

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This planet has a perpetual storm on it.

Jupiter

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A rocky or metallic object that orbits the sun, but is smaller than a planet or dwarf planet.

Asteroid

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This star is the eye of the bull.

Aldebaran

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Named for the Titans, first children of Mother Earth, this moon belongs to which planet.

Saturn

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This constellation was named for the Latin word for 'sea monster.'

Cetus

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This slowly rotating planet actually has year which is shorter than the length of its day.

Venus

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This important term comes from the Latin meaning weight or heaviness.

Gravity

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Arc to Arcturus, and speed to this bright star.

Spica

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Containing the Beehive Cluster, this zodiac constellation has been associated with something Hera sent to attack Hercules.

Cancer

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This constellation is most closely associated with the golden fleece sought by Jason.

Aries

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This planet has no moons and the shortest orbit of any planet.

Mercury

300

The movement of planets around the sun is called.

Revolution or Orbit

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Contained within the constellation Taurus, this star cluster is commonly named for a group of siblings.

Pleiades

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The zodiac constellation most commonly associated with the myth of Persephone and Demeter.

Virgo

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In Greek mythology, Apollo used this constellation to kill Orion.

Scorpio

400

The chemical responsible for the reddish color of Mars is this.

Iron

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The movement of a planet around its axis.

Rotation

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Coming from the Arabic for 'left leg of the giant,' this is one of the bright stars in Orion.

Rigel

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Representing the dragon killed by Cadmus before founding the city of Thebes, or Ladon, the 100-headed dragon who guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides, this is a long constellation.

Draco

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Associated with the cupbearer, Ganymede, this constellation is pouring an aqueous liquid.

Aquarius

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Although not the total number of moons belonging to this planet, this is the number of moons Galileo discovered when he looked through his telescope.

Four

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This is cause of the four seasons we experience on Earth.

Rotation  Revolution  Tilt  Perigee

The tilt of the Earth on its axis.

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This bright star flies with the constellation Cygnus.

Deneb

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This woman was the mother of Castor and Pollux.

Leda

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