Sagittarius
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A Gemini sun is known as restless and analytical, a Sagittarius moon brings an optimistic outlook and a rising Leo delivers confidence and charisma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
In the second study, Booth focused on a striking feature within the Milky Way known as the Sagittarius Arm, where the magnetic field runs in the opposite direction compared to the rest of the galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
The supermassive black hole astronomers recently found is a billion times more massive than the Sun and a hundred times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
From Space Scoop ● Mar. 27, 2025
That would be Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way whose mass is about 4 million times that of the sun.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
Her- schel had been misled because of the copious amount of obscuring dust in the direction of Sagittarius; he had no way to know of the enormous numbers of stars beyond.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Lady Enid pretended not to hear and tried to hasten with the astronomer towards the Sagittariuses.
From The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Hichens, Robert Smythe
To them and to the whole world—excepting Jellybrand's and you—we are the Sagittariuses of Sagittarius Lodge, people at ease, sir, living upon our competence beside the Mouse.
From The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Paris found that they were both in the vicinity of Chi Sagittarii on the day that the ‘Wow!’ signal was detected.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
While pointing towards a grouping of stars called Chi Sagittarii on 15 August, he received a powerful blast of radio waves that lasted for 72 seconds.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
Comet 266P/Christensen will pass the Chi Sagittarii star group again on 25 January 2017, while 335P/Gibbs will make its passage on 7 January 2018.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
The frozen little world will be passing very close to the faint naked-eye star Pi Sagittarii, to the left of Omicron Sagittarii, in the constellation Sagittarius, which will make for a convenient guidepost.
From National Geographic
One of its stars, α, is probably referred to by Al-Sufi in his description of Sagittarius; it lies nearly midway between β Sagittarii and α Gruis, and is the brightest star of the constellation.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
