File:Orion_constellation_-_Prodromus_astronomiae_1690_(5590584).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
AI overview
A constellation is a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern or shape in the night sky, often representing an animal, mythological character, or object. Constellations have been used throughout history to help people navigate, tell stories, and organize their understanding of the stars above them.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- geographical feature
- Part of
- celestial sphere
- Image
- Suzhou star cartography.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- Commons category
- Constellations
- topic's main category
- Category:Constellations
- equivalent class
- dbpedia.org/ontology/Constellation
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- topic has template
- Template:Constellations
- P8168
- goo
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject History
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · 日本語
星座(せいざ、英: constellation)は、天球を赤経・赤緯の線に沿った境界線で区切った領域のこと。かつては、複数の恒星が天球上に占める見かけの配置を、その特徴から連想した人、神、動物、物などさまざまな事物の名前で呼んだものであった。古来さまざまな地域・文化や時代に応じていろいろなグループ化の方法や星座名が用いられた。
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Gallery (322)
Available in 142 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Asturian
- azb
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
Show 123 more
- Bangla
- Bashkir
- Basque
- Bavarian
- be_x_old
- Belarusian
- Bikol
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Catalan
- cdo
- Cebuano
- Central Kurdish
- Chechen
- Chuvash
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- Galician
- Georgian
- Greek
- Guarani
- Haitian Creole
- Hakka Chinese
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Iban
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Igbo
- Interlingua
- Irish
- Javanese
- Kabyle
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Kazakh
- Kurdish
- Kyrgyz
- Latin
- Latvian
- Limburgish
- Lingala
- Lingua Franca Nova
- Lithuanian
- Low German
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Manx
- Marathi
- Mazanderani
- Mingrelian
- nah
- nds_nl
- Nederlands
- Nepali
- Newari
- Northern Frisian
- Northern Sami
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Novial
- nrm
- Occitan
- Oromo
- Ossetic
- Pashto
- Piedmontese
- Polski
- Punjabi
- Quechua
- roa_rup
- Romanian
- Scots
- Scottish Gaelic
- Serbian
- Serbian (Latin)
- Shona
- Sicilian
- simple
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Sundanese
- Svenska
- Swahili
- Tajik
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Telugu
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Walloon
- Waray
- Welsh
- Western Frisian
- Western Panjabi
- Wu Chinese
- Yakut
- Zaza
- zh_classical
- zh_min_nan
- zh_yue
- Zulu
- فارسی
- ไทย
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0