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Canis Major and Orion (constellation)

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Difference between Canis Major and Orion (constellation)

Canis Major vs. Orion (constellation)

Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world.

Similarities between Canis Major and Orion (constellation)

Canis Major and Orion (constellation) have 29 things in common (in Unionpedia): Asterism (astronomy), Binary star, Blue supergiant star, Canis Minor, Constellation, Constellation family, Declination, Egyptian calendar, Emission nebula, Equatorial coordinate system, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Hare, Homer, International Astronomical Union, Johann Bayer, Kelvin, Lepus (constellation), List of brightest stars, Monoceros, Right ascension, Sirius, Southern Hemisphere, Star formation, Stellar classification, Supergiant star, Supernova, Taurus (constellation), Variable star, White dwarf.

Asterism (astronomy)

In observational astronomy, an asterism is a popular known pattern or group of stars that are recognised in the night sky.

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Binary star

A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common barycenter.

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Blue supergiant star

Blue supergiant stars are hot luminous stars, referred to scientifically as OB supergiants.

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Canis Minor

Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere.

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Constellation

A constellation is a group of stars that are considered to form imaginary outlines or meaningful patterns on the celestial sphere, typically representing animals, mythological people or gods, mythological creatures, or manufactured devices.

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Constellation family

Constellation families are collections of constellations sharing some defining characteristic, such as proximity on the celestial sphere, common historical origin, or common mythological theme.

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Declination

In astronomy, declination (abbreviated dec; symbol δ) is one of the two angles that locate a point on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate system, the other being hour angle.

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Egyptian calendar

The ancient Egyptian calendar was a solar calendar with a 365-day year.

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Emission nebula

An emission nebula is a nebula formed of ionized gases that emit light of various wavelengths.

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Equatorial coordinate system

The equatorial coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system widely used to specify the positions of celestial objects.

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Eugène Joseph Delporte

Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.

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Johann Bayer

Johann Bayer (1572 – 7 March 1625) was a German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer).

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Kelvin

The Kelvin scale is an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.

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Lepus (constellation)

Lepus is a constellation lying just south of the celestial equator.

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List of brightest stars

This is a list of the brightest naked eye stars to +2.50 magnitude, as determined by their maximum, total, or combined apparent visual magnitudes as seen from Earth.

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Monoceros

Monoceros (Greek: Μονόκερως) is a faint constellation on the celestial equator.

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Right ascension

Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol) is the angular distance measured only eastward along the celestial equator from the Sun at the March equinox to the (hour circle of the) point above the earth in question.

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Sirius

Sirius (a romanization of Greek Σείριος, Seirios,."glowing" or "scorching") is a star system and the brightest star in the Earth's night sky.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Star formation

Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars.

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Stellar classification

In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics.

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Supergiant star

Supergiants are among the most massive and most luminous stars.

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Supernova

A supernova (plural: supernovae or supernovas, abbreviations: SN and SNe) is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a star's life, either a massive star or a white dwarf, whose destruction is marked by one final, titanic explosion.

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Taurus (constellation)

Taurus (Latin for "the Bull") is one of the constellations of the zodiac, which means it is crossed by the plane of the ecliptic.

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Variable star

A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) fluctuates.

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White dwarf

A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter.

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Canis Major and Orion (constellation) Comparison

Canis Major has 181 relations, while Orion (constellation) has 225. As they have in common 29, the Jaccard index is 7.14% = 29 / (181 + 225).

References

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