how did the constellation aquarius end up in the sky?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius
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Did you mean Cassiopeia?\n\nIt's a constellation of stars that looks like a big 'W' located almost directly opposite the Big Dipper across the north celestial pole. Five bright stars in the constellation form a rough W (or M ) in the sky.\n\nThe name comes from a woman of Greek legend.\n\nSee the link for all the details.
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IT STARTED IN THE ORIENT,THE PERSIANS,OBSERVATION IN THE NIGHT SKY,THEY NOTICED THAT EVERY CERTAIN TIME THE POSITION OF THE STARS\nCHANGED IN THEIR POSITIONS IN THE SKY ,THIS IS THE MOST CONDENSED THAT I CAN EXPLAIN
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sky is just a small portion of the universe.\nit cud have a pillar if one cud go to the ends of the universe.. but even the most elaborate and sensitive radio telescopes cant reach all that is up there.. \n\nthere are more stars and galaxies un-named...... and counting....\n\nil let u know once i found out what makes the sky stands up there... with or without pillars. \n\nafter a million light years.....P
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Since you asked I guess that you belive in astrology. It's really up to you, but since you asked here's the skinny: \n\nRomantic Compatibility\n\nLibra & Aquarius\n\nWhen Libra and Aquarius join in a love match, their relationship can serve to heighten and strengthen both Signs' consciousness. These two connect on a high mental level; they share a love of art, people and culture; they both abhor restrictive influences in their lives. They are likely to get along well because they have such similar needs and will not require more of one another than they're both willing to give. Both Signs are also very energetic, enthusiastic types; this relationship is not likely to become stagnant.\n\nBoth Aquarius and Libra are concerned with the betterment of the world and their fellow people. Aquarius is the most progressive thinker of the Zodiac, and they always have a new idea in the works. Libra is the diplomat of the Zodiac; abhorring conflict of any sort, they are born balancers (hence their Symbol, the Scales). Libra's urge to avoid conflict put together with a love of intellectual freedom can lead them to be somewhat indecisive at times; when this happens, more decisive Aquarius can step in and help Libra figure out which direction to turn. Libra can return the favor by smoothing Aquarius's occasionally ruffled feathers that result from the Water Bearer's idealistic thinking sometimes crashing down in the face of reality.\n\nLibra is ruled by the Planet Venus (Love) and Aquarius is ruled by the Planets Uranus (Rebellion) and Saturn (Karma). This combination of influences can be an interesting and productive one; Libra and Aquarius should certainly take on other projects together than simply their love relationship, because they can make great things happen using their hearts, their urge for progress and their consciousness of the greater good. These two are an extraordinary duo for standing up for social justice or radical change in the community.\n\nBoth Libra and Aquarius are Air Signs. They have strong intellectual bonds to one another and constantly stimulate one another's ideas and communication styles and skills. Again, their ability to work together makes it obvious that these two Signs must take on larger projects in their life together -- they should concern themselves with the greater good. Libra can bring a certain balance to any undertaking that almost no other Sign is able to achieve. Aquarius and Libra together will also have many stimulating intellectual discussions about their interests and pursuits.\n\nLibra is a Cardinal Sign and Aquarius is a Fixed Sign. Libra sets things into motion but may have trouble finishing them, which is what makes Aquarius's determined influence so positive: The Water Bearer has a great deal of follow-through and can take Libra's ideas and run with them to the end. These two work especially well together as they tend not to argue about who does what, who takes credit and who works behind the scenes versus out in the spotlight.\n\nWhat's the best aspect of the Libra-Aquarius relationship? Their ability to work together as a team. Together they can learn much more than either Sign would alone. Their accomplishments and love of socializing and new projects make theirs a highly successful relationship.
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To a certain extent I guess they are, considering why they're called the zodiac.\n\nAs the earth rotates around the sun, if we could see the stars during the day time, we would see the sun, as the year goes by, going through a bunch of constellations. \n\nThe constellations the sun touches as it travels along this yearly path (or so it seems - its the earth that's travelling on its yearly path) form part of the zodiac constellations.\n\nThe constellation the sun is in when you are born is defined as your zodiac sign.\n\nFunny though, the chart was drawn up hundreds of years ago, and because of precession (the earth slowly wobbles on its axis like a top), all the zodiac dates are , by now, off by a month. I was born March 12, 1977, and at that time, the sun was just leaving Aquarius instead of being in Pisces. I wonder how many people are reading the wrong horoscope :)
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A bird, from ancient mthology. It's also a constellation in the southern hemisphere.
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Pisces (Latin for fish (plural), symbol , Unicode ♓) is a zodiac constellation which lies between Aquarius to the west and Aries to the east.\n\nThe Vernal equinox is currently located in Pisces, due south of ω Psc, and, due to precession, slowly drifting below the western fish towards Aquarius.\n\n\nMythology\nThe constellation resembles two roundish objects, each of which is tied to the same point by a long length of string [1]. Generally the objects have been considered as fish, although since by including fainter stars visible to the naked eye, the strings themself take on the appearance of stick-figure bodies (with the roundish objects thus becoming heads). Some forms of early Greek mythology viewed it as men bound to a point. It is generally thought that in earlier depictions, only the constellation Piscis Austrinus was considered to be a fish.\n\nAccording to one version in Greek mythology, this constellation represents fish into which Aphrodite and her son Eros transformed in order to escape the monstrous Typhon. The two fishes are often depicted tied together with a cord (or their tails), to make sure they do not lose one another.\n\nAccording to another version, since the binding point is below the ecliptic, and thus considered to represent being in the underworld, and that one of the figures (the one on the left) appears to escape, but the other (on the right) seems to head back toward the ecliptic, then, together with Cetus (another constellation in the Zodiac sign of Pisces), this may have formed the basis of the myth of the capture of Cerberus, one of The Twelve Labours of Herakles.\n\n\nAstrology\nThe Western astrological sign Pisces of the tropical zodiac (February 19 - March 20) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu astrological sign of the sidereal zodiac (March 12 - April 18).\n\n\nNotable Deep Sky objects\nPisces contains one galaxy that is listed in Charles Messier's catalog, namely the spiral galaxy Messier 74.\n\n\nStars\nStars with proper names: \n(113/α Psc) (double) 3.82, 4.33 Alrescha [Al Rescha, Alrischa, Alrisha, Rescha, El Rischa, Al Richa] or Kaitain or Okda \nAlrescha < ? ar-riša' The ropes \nOkda < عقدة cuqda[h] Knot \n(4/β Psc) 4.48 Fum al Samakah \n< فم السمكة fum/fam al-samakah Mouth of the fish \n(99/η Psc) 3.62 Alpherg or Kullat-Nunu \n[Alpherg = a error for Alpherd?] \n(110/ο Psc) 4.26 Torcularis Septentrionalis \n< torculāris septemtriōnālis Of the northern wine/oil press \nvan Maanen's star (HIP 3829) 12.38 – closest single white dwarf \nStars with Bayer designations: \n6/γ Psc 3.70; 63/δ Psc 4.44; 71/ε Psc 4.27; 86/ζ Psc – double 5.21, 6.44; 10/θ Psc 4.27; 17/ι Psc 4.13; 8/κ Psc 4.95; 18/λ Psc 4.49; 98/μ Psc 4.84; 106/ν Psc 4.45; 111/ξ Psc 4.61; 102/π Psc 5.54; 93/ρ Psc 5.35; 69/σ Psc 5.50; 83/τ Psc 4.51; 90/υ Psc 4.74; 84/χ Psc 4.66; 85/φ Psc 4.67; 74/ψ1 Psc – double 5.33, 5.55; 79/ψ2 Psc 5.56; 81/ψ3 Psc 5.57; 28/ω Psc 4.03; 7/b Psc 5.05; 32/c Psc 5.70; 41/d Psc 5.38; 80/e Psc 5.51; 89/f Psc 5.13; 82/g Psc 5.15; 68/h Psc 5.44; 65/i Psc – double 5.55, 7.1 ; 67/k Psc 6.08; 91/l Psc 5.23; 5/A Psc 5.42 \nStars with Flamsteed designations: \n1 Psc 6.11; 2 Psc 5.43; 3 Psc 6.22; 9 Psc 6.26; 13 Psc 6.39; 14 Psc 5.91; 15 Psc 6.47; 16 Psc 5.68; 19/TX Psc 4.95; 20 Psc 5.49; 21 Psc 5.77; 22 Psc 5.59; 24 Psc 5.93; 25 Psc 6.29; 26 Psc 6.22; 27 Psc 4.88; 29 Psc 5.13; 30 Psc 4.37; 31 Psc 6.33; 33 Psc 4.61; 34 Psc 5.54; 35 Psc 6.02; 36 Psc 6.12; 38 Psc 6.66; 40 Psc 6.60; 42 Psc 6.25; 44 Psc 5.77; 45 Psc 6.77; 46 Psc 6.40; 48 Psc 6.05; 51 Psc 5.69; 52 Psc 5.38; 53 Psc 5.89; 54 Psc 5.88 – has a planet; 55 Psc 5.36; 57 Psc 5.36; 58 Psc 5.51; 59 Psc 6.11; 60 Psc 5.98; 61 Psc 6.51; 62 Psc 5.92; 64 Psc 5.07; 66 Psc 5.80; 72 Psc 5.64; 73 Psc 6.03; 75 Psc 6.14; 76 Psc 6.28; 77 Psc – double 6.35, 7.42; 78 Psc 6.23; 87 Psc 5.97; 88 Psc 6.04; 94 Psc 5.50; 95 Psc 7.21; 97 Psc 6.01; 100 Psc 7.05; 101 Psc 6.23; 104
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They also occur as a circle, if you're in a plane (i was in a microlight) above mist/cloud it's the most spectacular sight, I looked down and there was a circular rainbow. It has to do with the fact that you're viewing it from one point, all the rainbow is relative to you.
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Constellations are meaningless light patterns that the ancients invented when looking at the night sky, by thinking it in two dimensions as the internal surface of a gigantic sphere.\nThey are constituted not only by stars (which would be somehow consistent) but by random mixes of celestial objects such as stars, planets, moons, galaxies and galactic conglomerates.\nThe only thing that all these light sources have in common is just that they are approximately in the same direction when seen from Earth and projected in 2D, but they belong to different, unrelated, very far systems when seen in 3D.\nIn modern astronomy, constellations have no other use than a traditional way of speaking to locate celestial objects when pointing the telescope.
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The brightest star in the sky is Sirius (aka the Dog Star) and it is sort of bluish, and iridescent.  It flashes so many colors that I have many times had people convinced it was a plane and bet me money it wasn't a star, only to see it sitting quite still among the stars for hours.  THis star would have probably been on the western horizon pretty late, like around 2 or 3 am (it's usually rather high in the south when I go to work at 10pm).\n\nMars, being rather red, is also quite visible recently, and would be hovering near the horizon also quite late.  Mercury is always near the sun, and is likely to be seen in the west just after sunset (but I can't say for sure, since I haven't seen it recently--it's usually already set by the time I wake up for work).  And it seems like I recently saw Venus being quite right, and it should be setting a few hours after sunset.\n\nIf you give the color and the time, I could give you a better answer.
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Aquarius\nZodiac Symbol: Water Bearer\nBirth Dates: January 20 - February 18\nBirth Dates (Sidereal): February 13 - March 14\nConstellation: Aquarius\nZodiac Element: Air\nZodiac Quality: Fixed\nBody Part: Ankles\nDomicile: Saturn (or Uranus)\nDetriment: Sun\nExaltation: None\nFall: None\n\nIndividuals born under this sign are thought to have a creative, challenging, entertaining, progressive, stimulating, independent, and determined character, but one which is also prone to rebelliousness, coldness, erraticism, cowardice, and impracticality. In terms of anatomy, Aquarius is said to rule the legs from knees to ankles and the circulation of blood.\n\nPhysically, individuals born under the sign of Aquarius supposedly tend to have a vague expression, straight and silky hair, finely chiseled features, and a tall and slender figure. The males are often said to tend to be rather effeminate in appearance and the females somewhat broad-shouldered and masculine.
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Stars, except for the Sun, although they may be millions of miles in diameter, are very far away.  They appear as point sources even when viewed by telescopes.  The planets in our solar system, much smaller than stars, are closer and can be resolved as disks with a little bit of magnification (field binoculars, for example).\n\nSince the Earth's atmosphere is turbulent, all images viewed up through it tend to "swim."  The result of this is that sometimes a single point in object space gets mapped to two or more points in image space, and also sometimes a single point in object space does not get mapped into any point in image space.  When a star's single point in object space fails to map to at least one point in image space, the star seems to disappear temporarily.  This does not mean the star's light is lost for that moment.  It just means that it didn't get to your eye, it went somewhere else.\n\nSince planets represent several points in object space, it is highly likely that one or more points in the planet's object space get mapped to a points in image space, and the planet's image never winks out.  Each individual ray is twinkling away as badly as any star, but when all of those individual rays are viewed together, the next effect is averaged out to something considerably steadier.\n\nThe result is that stars tend to twinkle, and planets do not.  Other extended objects in space, even very far ones like nebulae, do not twinkle if they are sufficiently large that they have non-zero apparent diameter when viewed from the Earth.
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In some constellations, Roman letters were used to label stars if there weren't enough letters in the Greek alphabet to label them all.  They start with lower case a to z, then go on to uppercase A to Q.  R and later are usually used to denote variable stars :)
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Astronomers define a coordinate system on the sky that lets them identify the relative positions of stars, planets, the Sun and other celestial phenomena (the coordinates are called "right ascension" and "declination", but we don't need to worry about that here). Because of their great distance from the Earth, the positions of most stars are fixed on the grid. The positions of the planets and the Sun, however, are seen to "travel" through the coordinate grid in systematic (though sometimes complicated) patterns. The paths of the planets was carefully observed by Tycho Brahe in the late 1500s. Following Brahe's death in 1601, Johannes Kepler used the data to develop a set of laws that govern the way the planets move around the Sun (he proposed them in 1609). These laws, (creatively) called Kepler's Laws, still hold today.\n\nWith Kepler's laws in hand, one can easily interpret the motion of the Sun through the coordinate grid described above as the result of the tilt of the Earth by 23.5 degrees with respect to the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun. Since Kepler was the one to correctly interpret the motion of the planets and the Sun through the sky, he is the one that I would attribute the title "Discoverer of the 23.5 degree tilt", in the early 1600s.
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could you give me your birthdate? I think you are aquarius trust yourself!
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The planets all condensed from the same dust cloud. This cloud was in orbit around the sun and was rotating. As a result of the rotation it was spun out into a disk - this is called an accretion disk and is seen around a lot of stars. So all of the planets condensed out of a disk and hence are in the same plane.\n\nSome objects orbiting the sun did not condense from this disk but were captured. These are typically not in the plane of the ecliptic. Pluto - recently removed from the canon of planets - is in this category.