constellation
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R Doradus is a red giant star located about 180 light years from Earth in the southern constellation Dorado, also known as the Swordfish.
From Science Daily
AST is building a satellite constellation capable of bringing data services to any smartphone.
From Barron's
It lies within the faint but imaginative constellation Monoceros, which represents a unicorn in star maps.
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One of the new discoveries is a planet known as HIP 54515 b, which orbits a star located 271 light-years away in the constellation Leo.
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Emerging from that “old constellation” of the European state system, Mr. Shalev argues, “the American Union presented itself . . . as a new constellation of star-states that was regulated, predictable, harmonious and sublime.”
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