constellation
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Both showers get their names from the constellation Taurus, where their meteors appear to originate when viewed from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Wednesday’s slogan is only the starting point of LA28’s constellation of events, Merchán said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The U.S. government owns the physical Starshield satellite constellation that SpaceX operates, but that isn’t the infrastructure that Ukrainian forces are using.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Between midnight and dawn the constellation will climb higher in the sky to the south and then the south-west.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
I took his hand in mine and rubbed my finger over his constellation birthmark, a smattering of freckles in the crook of his thumb, our silent message only he and I know.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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“You’d see twice as many stars in the sky,” said Hanno Rein, an associate professor at the University of Toronto who has modeled light pollution from planned satellite constellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
“The simple idea of stars and constellations have, in recorded history, been a part of every group around the world,” Merchán said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
They show them the Moon's craters, Saturn's rings, Vega - the brightest star in the night sky - and other planets, using laser pointers to trace constellations and objects visible to the naked eye.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Starship's enormous payload capacity and planned rapid reuse make it well suited for ambitious projects such as lunar bases, Mars missions, and massive satellite constellations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
I look at both sides of my Scantron to see wild constellations that don’t exist in the heavens, and yet are more true than the stars we can see.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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