constellation
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The meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, but their path seems to trace back to the constellation Perseus, which rises in the north east and climbs higher during the night.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
So yes: The Rams are a constellation of stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The company’s largest segment is connectivity, a unit primarily consisting of its Starlink service, which uses a constellation of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit to provide high-speed internet connections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is located in the constellation Aquila near Altair, one of the well-known stars that forms the Summer Triangle.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
They were my constellation, or however Becca was saying it.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
"We are lucky in Northern Ireland. We have quite a lot of dark places... and you can see lots of stars, lots of constellations."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
U.S. companies and government agencies have set out ambitious plans to deploy their own constellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Other projects such as the "Cinnamon" plans of start-up E-Space and Chinese constellations CTC-1 and CTC-2 would add hundreds of thousands more satellites spinning around our planet.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Although satellite constellations such as Starlink and Amazon Leo have demonstrated that doing this is possible, the amount of data sent to and from space would balloon.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
“In the old days, there were more. Whole constellations have disappeared because of human light pollution.”
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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