Constellation - Blog Posts
Leo constellation, from Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia, part of Prodromus Astronomiae (1690) by Johannes Hevelius
From: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, Tommaso Baglioni, Venezia, 1610
Celestial Fortune Telling Teacups from TeaWithKarin
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Cookie cat wallpaper!
This is the first time I tried to make some sort of pattern for a wallpaper and to be honest... it was tons of fun! I might do more in the future. I also wanted to try two versions of it, so here we go!
Old little doodle of my OC, Nauru.
Constellations and the Calendar
Did you recently hear that NASA changed the zodiac signs? Nope, we definitely didn’t…
…Here at NASA, we study astronomy, not astrology. We didn’t change any zodiac signs, we just did the math. Here are the details:
First Things First: Astrology is not Astronomy…
Astronomy is the scientific study of everything in outer space. Astronomers and other scientists know that stars many light-years away have no effect on the ordinary activities of humans on Earth.
Astrology, meanwhile, is something else. It’s the belief that the positions of stars and planets can influence human events. It’s not considered a science.
Some curious symbols ring the outside of the Star Finder. These symbols stand for some of the constellations in the zodiac. What is the zodiac and what is special about these constellations?
Imagine a straight line drawn from Earth though the sun and out into space way beyond our solar system where the stars are. Then, picture Earth following its orbit around the sun. This imaginary line would rotate, pointing to different stars throughout one complete trip around the sun – or, one year. All the stars that lie close to the imaginary flat disk swept out by this imaginary line are said to be in the zodiac.
The constellations in the zodiac are simply the constellations that this imaginary straight line points to in its year-long journey.
What are Constellations?
A constellation is group of stars like a dot-to-dot puzzle. If you join the dots—stars, that is—and use lots of imagination, the picture would look like an object, animal, or person. For example, Orion is a group of stars that the Greeks thought looked like a giant hunter with a sword attached to his belt. Other than making a pattern in Earth’s sky, these stars may not be related at all.
Even the closest star is almost unimaginably far away. Because they are so far away, the shapes and positions of the constellations in Earth’s sky change very, very slowly. During one human lifetime, they change hardly at all.
A Long History of Looking to the Stars
The Babylonians lived over 3,000 years ago. They divided the zodiac into 12 equal parts – like cutting a pizza into 12 equal slices. They picked 12 constellations in the zodiac, one for each of the 12 “slices.” So, as Earth orbits the sun, the sun would appear to pass through each of the 12 parts of the zodiac. Since the Babylonians already had a 12-month calendar (based on the phases of the moon), each month got a slice of the zodiac all to itself.
But even according to the Babylonians’ own ancient stories, there were 13 constellations in the zodiac. So they picked one, Ophiuchus, to leave out. Even then, some of the chosen 12 didn’t fit neatly into their assigned slice of the pie and crossed over into the next one.
When the Babylonians first invented the 12 signs of zodiac, a birthday between about July 23 and August 22 meant being born under the constellation Leo. Now, 3,000 years later, the sky has shifted because Earth’s axis (North Pole) doesn’t point in quite the same direction.
The constellations are different sizes and shapes, so the sun spends different lengths of time lined up with each one. The line from Earth through the sun points to Virgo for 45 days, but it points to Scorpius for only 7 days. To make a tidy match with their 12-month calendar, the Babylonians ignored the fact that the sun actually moves through 13 constellations, not 12. Then they assigned each of those 12 constellations equal amounts of time.
So, we didn’t change any zodiac signs…we just did the math.
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Eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372).
Credit: william226
NGC 2023, Center Rose
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NGC 3324, Keyhole Nebula
ES|| “A ti que te encuentras al otro lado de estas palabras, Como explicarte cómo han sido estos últimos años, para mí se podría decir que han sido unos años para crecer, como una flor que crece en medio de las piedras de un muro, unos años de diferencias y cambios, unos años impredecibles donde las cosas que me han marcado quizás no son las que se esperaban, porque si algo me ha quedado claro es que cada uno ha vivido su propia historia paralela a la historia común, seguramente todas distintas, algunas más dramáticas, otras más alegres, con mil detonantes y experiencias diferentes... En mi caso ha habido de todo: pizcas y puñados de miles de emociones y pensamientos entrelazados. A veces miro el mundo y no entiendo nada (…) Me preocupa hacia dónde vamos como especie, el cambio climático, el machismo, el racismo, la homofobia, las guerras, el capitalismo, la desaparición constante de especies,... Demasiado a menudo ignorando las señales de peligro, incapaces de mirar el futuro, estancados en el pasado, no aceptando la diferencia y juzgando sin cesar. Sólo deseo que todavía estemos a tiempo de cambiar el rumbo que hace años empezamos. A lo largo de mi vida, poco a poco he ido descubriendo la importancia que para mí tiene la naturaleza, he aprendido a centrarme en los pequeños placeres de la vida, el calor en la piel cuando el Sol ilumina el cielo, el calor en las manos de una taza de té en una noche fría, la suavidad del algodón, la frescura de la sandía en verano, la melodía de los pájaros a media tarde, los colores y tonos de las flores y de los árboles, las conversaciones que duran hasta la madrugada, una buena historia, el calor del contacto con otra piel, el trazo de un pincel (…)” Este es un fragmento de la carta que escribí, si queréis ver la impresionante pieza que inspiró buscad en el perfil de @martinadaurart la pintura “Hygge”. Aquí tenéis un pequeño fragmento de mi ilustración para la expo colectiva “Resiliències” por @maletasviejas en @cctrinitatvella.
Casa floral || floral house
Experiment d’unir dibuix més realista amb dibuix infantil. Cases d’algu, de qui serà?
Experimento de unir dibujo más realista con dibujo infantil. Casas de alguien, de quién será esta?
Experimenting with realistic drawing and children illustration together. Houses of someone, who’s will this be?
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constel·lacions i somnis || constellations and dreams || constelaciones i sueños
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BON NADAL 2018 || MERRY CHRISTMAS 2018
Feliç solstici d’hivern a tots i totes!
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Murder witch
“The North Star and the dippers.” Our Wide, Wide World. 1932.
