Recently, the night sky above our heads staged a soap opera-like story - two separate constellations merged into one. Maybe we can call it the heavenly version of My Kids.
Cassiopeia consists of a bright arrangement of stars that take on the shape of a W. As one of the key constellations, she may be in fourth place in popularity, behind the signs of Ursa Major, Orion and Aung. Of course, her shape is easy to remember: around it are the 5 brightest stars, and it is these brightest stars that make up an irregular letter "W" or letter "M", but whether it is "W" or "M" depends on how you look at it.
In autumn, around 9 p.m., Cassiopeia hovers above the North Star, when the "M" shape is most easily recognizable. When two faint stars join, the seven stars work together to draw a cassiopeia chair or throne, next to the North Pole.
The constellation Cassiopeia and Ursa Major rotate around the sides of the North Star. On autumn or early winter nights, when Cassiopeia rises to a high position, Ursa Major appears to hibernate on the Northern Horizon.
Unlike most standard astronomical descriptions and star-observing guides, for years I have felt that the outline of Cassiopeia is not like M or W, nor like a chair or throne, but like the silhouette of the queen's side face.
When the sun goes down for 90 minutes, the sky is completely dark, and Cassiopeia rises to the northeast of the sky, at which point we are most likely to observe the contours like faces.
The M shape listed in the 5 brightest stars is like the crown of the Queen. The bright star Wang Liangsi was the queen's eye, and the faintly bright fourth-magnitude star Zeta Star not far away was her nose. Finally, the less commonly seen fifth-magnitude seta in this area is the Queen's chin.
You can even imagine the Dark Stars Capa 48 and Cassiopeia 50 as scepters wielded above the Queen's head to decorate the starry sky.
By the way, this is not the first time that a star called the Scepter has appeared in this area. Not far from Cassiopeia is 1679 by Augustine. Royer proposed the Scepter constellation and the Hand of Justice, but these claims are now outdated. Now, it is officially attributed to the constellation Scorpius. In this constellation is the astronomer John. The Sea of Nes was named in 1687. It's a small constellation with no bright stars, but imagine that it took only 8 years to fall from the royal scepter to a low lizard, and you really feel sorry for this star.
Cassiopeia's husband is the King of Ethiopia on the Cassiopeia throne. On the night of early November to see the Paladin, his motifs appear less regular. Rather than being a king, it looks more like a church with a minaret, or an alpine ski lodge — the snow shedding, revealing a sharp roof.
In this celestial soap opera, the Queen of the Immortals offended the sea goddess by boasting that her beauty was comparable to that of the goddess Néridez, the goddess of the sea.
Neridez considered himself a god, but was used to compare himself to a mortal queen, so he went directly to the sea god. In order to punish Cassio Peya's boasting, poseidon flooded the coast and released a sea beast (Seters, sometimes called a whale) to destroy the land. No one can defeat the monsters, and the whole kingdom seems to have no way to escape it.
To save Ethiopia, the king heeded the advice of the Libyan oracle Amun and tied up his daughter, Princess Andromeda, as a sacrifice and placed on a stone. Eventually, Princess Andromeda obeyed fate's arrangement and was tied up and placed on a stone. Soon, Setters emerged from the waves and devoured Andromeda.
However, when Setes arrived, Pyrius appeared on Pegasus on a pegasus. Pilcius had just completed his mission to assassinate Medusa, a snake-haired monster whose hair was snake- and whose hair was turned into stone when looked directly at it, was on his way back. He took Medusa's head from his bag and placed it in front of Setters, turning Seths to stone. Andromeda was rescued and became engaged to Pircius. After that, the two of them flew to the sun in Pergasus and left Ethiopia. Perhaps, they will live a happy life in the future.
All of these stories may have taken place thousands of years ago, but on a cold November night, you'll see the constellations named after them appear in the sky: kings, queens, princesses, heroes, Pegasus, and sea monsters. They all appear in the same area of the sky, and when Cassiopeia is at a high position, the other constellations in the story also appear at the same time.
Cassiopeia is a constellation named after the conceited Queen Cassiopeia, the mother of Princess Andromeda in Greek mythology. Cassiopeia is one of the 48 constellations proposed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, and to this day, she is still one of the 88 modern constellations. The shape of the W, made up of 5 bright stars, makes her very recognizable in the night sky.
In the night sky around 34 degrees north latitude, Cassiopeia can be seen all year round. In tropical or subtropical regions, Cassiopeia is most clearly observed from September to early November. In the lower latitudes of the southern hemisphere, in the tropics and below 25 degrees south latitude, it can be observed seasonally, but the probability is lower than that of the north.
Among the second-magnitude stars , Cassiopeia A or Wang Liang IV is the brightest star in Cassiopeia , although sometimes its brightness is surpassed by gamma , which has become a 1.6th magnitude star. Cassiopeia has some of the brightest stars we know of, including the yellow supergiant Rhoprus and V509 and the white supergiant 6. In 1572, Tycho in Cassiopeia. Brahe's supernova erupts, emitting a dazzling light.
Cassiopeia A is a legacy of its explosion and is the brightest extra solar system radio frequency source in the sky, with frequencies of about 1 G hertz. Fourteen star systems with exoplanets have been discovered, of which the HR8832 star has about 7 planets. There is a part of the Milky Way that passes through Cassiopeia, and this part of the Milky Way fragment has a large number of open nebulae, young and bright Milky Way disk-like stars and nebulae. IC10 is the closest known irregular nebula capable of shining light, and the only one in the same galaxy as ours.
BY: Joe Rao published
FY: Autumn
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