Give it a try. Remember that in the southern hemisphere, the Hunter stands upside-down. The earliest known history of Orion the Hunter Constellation goes as far back as years. The Hunter was documented in a prehistoric Aurignacian ivory carving. The carving was discovered in a cave in the Ach valley in West Germany in Babylonian star records, which were created around BC in the Late Bronze Age, also showed the Orion origin as a hunter in the sky.
In ancient Egypt, around BC, astronomers identified the constellation as the God Sah or Sahu, who was swallowed by the underworld. The stars in the dense Orion cluster were thought to have been formed in the last 3 million years 4. This is the path that the sun takes as it moves across the sky during the year. Orion lies to the south of the Ecliptic path and is not crossed by the sun.
The Orion constellation story does have an interesting link to Scorpio, the 8th sign of the Zodiac and one of the Zodiac constellations. In the sky, he stands facing the Bull, and it appears as if he is about to do battle with this creature.
Some Orion stars are brighter than others and many are identified for their unique attributes. The famous belt of Orion is made up of three 3 stars, Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Mintaka is the western-most star and is a multiple star system about light-years away. Alnitak is the eastern-most star and is made up of a star system of 3 blue supergiants. Alnilam is the middle star of the belt; It is a young star, only 5.
When new stars begin to form, they also throw out the gas, which forms into nebulae 8. The Trapezium is a dense open cluster of stars located in the middle of the Orion Nebula. Galileo Galilei discovered it in Exoplanets are of great interest as they may very well have similar conditions to our Earth and hence the possibility of life.
Orbiting this star is a gas giant which they named CVSO 30c. It is so close to its star that the outer layers are being burnt away. They are of interest to astronomers as they orbit close to the mother star, which could possibly make them habitable planets. Through a telescope, it is spectacular! Orion is the 26th constellation in size, occupying an area of square degrees.
Where is Orion in the sky? It is located in the first quadrant of the northern hemisphere. A quadrant is essentially a quarter of a circle, which allows astronomers to measure the altitude of objects above the horizon. The Orion constellation is easy to find in the night sky, both in the northern and southern hemispheres. How to find Orion belt — look for three bright stars in a straight line, they cannot be missed. Orion northern hemisphere, rises in the east and sets in the west.
In December the constellation appears in the night sky at around 8 pm and moves slowly westwards until around 6 am. From January to March it first appears in the south-east at around 6 pm and slowly moves out of view at around 2 am. In April, look out for Orion at around 9pm in the south-west and watch it dip below the horizon at midnight.
These three stars are Orion's Belt, part of the constellation Orion, the Hunter. To many ancient people, the pattern of Orion looked like the figure of a human with an arrow, and the three stars were the belt around the figure's waist.
Each star has its own name: Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak. Though they are different types of stars, distant from Earth, and distant from one another, our perspective makes them appear as an asterism a shape made of stars that aren't officially a constellation that is welcomingly familiar to anyone who enjoys stargazing.
All three stars are several times larger and brighter than our sun. Due to its bright, recognizable form, Orion's Belt has been one of the most consistently documented asterisms in the night sky throughout human history. Orion's Belt — along with another well-known asterism, the Pleiades, are mentioned in two books of the Bible: the Book of Job and the Book of Amos. Orion is still chasing them there.
In Western culture, you may sometimes hear Orion's Belt referred to as the Three Kings in a biblical reference or the three sisters. The asterism is mentioned in other cultural stories and mythologies too, from locations as varied as northwestern Mexico, Finland and India.
The Greek astronomer Ptolemy included Orion as one of the 48 original constellations in the second century. You've probably seen Orion's Belt even if you don't know anything about astronomy. The constellation Orion is visible at night across most of the globe during the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere; during the summer months, it is in the sky during daylight hours when the sun makes it impossible to see.
These seasons are reversed if you are viewing Orion from the Southern Hemisphere. Orion's Belt is located on the celestial equator an imaginary circle around the sky that is directly above Earth's equator , which means it rises high in the sky during those cold winter months with dark skies that are perfect for stargazing.
Before you begin stargazing, you need to find your directions. You need to find Polaris the North Star. It is located due north, but it is hard to find because it is not very bright. Imagine drawing a line between them and extend that line into the sky from the bowl do not poke a hole in the bowl or you will get lost. You will extend that line about five times the distance between the pointer stars to reach Polaris.
Looking at Polaris, you are facing north. Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor the little bear.
The seven brightest stars in Ursa Minor make the pattern of the Little Dipper. Polaris is at the tip of the handle. The Big Dipper is made with the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major the great bear. The stars in Cepehus resemble a house. The imaginary line should reach the star at the top of the house.
Continue the imaginary line through that star in Cepheus to reach the stars of Cassiopeia. Draco the constellation of the dragon is difficult to find because the stars are not very bright. The stars snake between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Note: Circumpolar constellations are dependent on where you live. At our latitude in the Northern Hemisphere there are 5 circumpolar constellations listed above. Phone: Have you ever noticed that the night sky in winter looks different than the summer? This occurs because the Earth is orbiting the Sun. In winter, we see the constellation Orion in the south at night and during the day the Sun is in the sky with the constellation Scorpius.
In summer, we see the opposite we see Scorpius at night and Orion is in the sky during the day. CVSO 30c if it exists is a gas giant that orbits its star at a distance of astronomical units Earth-sun distances and makes an orbit every 27, years. The other candidate planet is gas giant CVSO 30b, which by contrast is extremely close — just 0. A Jupiter-size potential exoplanet, PTFOb , is about 1, light-years from Earth and if it exists is so close to its star that its outer layers are being ripped away from the rest of the planet.
The star's system showed high-energy hydrogen emissions that can't be explained by stellar activities or features, according to astronomers. There are a few other probable planets in Orion as well, although their existence may be proved or disproved with more observations. These include HD b and HD c two gas giants orbiting in a system with a huge debris disk , HD b a gas giant orbiting in the habitable zone of its star and HD b a gas giant that orbits extremely close to its parent star.
In Greek mythology, Orion was a hunter. According to greekmythology. According to the oldest version, described on greekmythology. Orion inherited the ability to walk on water from his father and made his way to the island of Chios.
It was there that Orion drank too much and made sexual advances to Merope, the daughter of the local king. King Oenopion had Orion blinded and thrown off the island.
Orion then made his way to the east where Helios — the sun god — restored his eyesight. Confident in his hunting abilities, Orion declared he would kill every animal in the world but Gaea — the goddess of the Earth — angered by Orion's claims, sent a scorpion to kill him.
Upon Orion's demise, Zeus turned him into a constellation, along with the scorpion that killed him. According to a constellation website constellation-guide. While the name Orion is steeped in Greek mythology, many cultures have been influenced by the story of this constellation.
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