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  2. IAU designated constellations - Wikipedia

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    IAU designated constellations. In contemporary astronomy, 88 constellations are recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). [1] Each constellation is a region of the sky bordered by arcs of right ascension and declination, together covering the entire celestial sphere. Their boundaries were officially adopted by the International ...

  3. Orion (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass-shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky. Four stars—Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, and Saiph—form a large roughly rectangular shape, at the center of which lies the three stars of Orion's Belt—Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. His head is marked by an additional 8th star called ...

  4. IAU designated constellations by area - Wikipedia

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    IAU designated constellations by area. Hydra is the largest constellation, covering more than 1⁄32 of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) designates 88 constellations of stars. In the table below, they are ranked by the solid angle that they subtend in the sky, measured in square degrees and millisteradians .

  5. Celestial cartography - Wikipedia

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    Celestial cartography, [1] uranography, [2] [3] astrography or star cartography[citation needed] is the aspect of astronomy and branch of cartography concerned with mapping stars, galaxies, and other astronomical objects on the celestial sphere. Measuring the position and light of charted objects requires a variety of instruments and techniques.

  6. Wikipedia:Blank maps - Wikipedia

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    These are azimuthal orthographic projections of the Earth from four sides plus the poles. 726x726 pixels, aliased. XCFs have separate layers for water, land, coastlines, political borders, political borders over water (not shown in PNGs), and latitude & longitude gridlines (not shown in PNGs). Image:Blankmap-ao-000 -africa europe.png XCF.

  7. Observable universe - Wikipedia

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    Dark matter (26.8%) Dark energy (68.3%) [6] The observable universe is a ball-shaped region of the universe consisting of all matter that can be observed from Earth or its space-based telescopes and exploratory probes at the present time; the electromagnetic radiation from these objects has had time to reach the Solar System and Earth since the ...

  8. Four Corners - Wikipedia

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    Four Corners. Coordinates: 36°59′56.3″N 109°02′42.6″W. The Four Corners region is the red circle in this map. The Four Corners states are highlighted in orange. False-color satellite image of the Four Corners. Bright red lines are vegetation along the major rivers of the area. A young Navajo boy on horseback in Monument Valley.

  9. List of flags by design - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.