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twinkle twinkle little Stars ~ Orion ~ my "1 line star" Ò»×ÖÐÇ Whenever i feel tired, i will ponder upon the beautiful nite skies, the wonderful stars of orion's belt turned me on to star Gazing. Usually, we can only see the Orion's belt, not the other stars of Orion. Hence, I name is "1 line star" -¡µÒ»×ÖÐÇ :p
------------------------------------ One of the winter's most widely recognized constellations is "Orion, the hunter" who is not visible in the summer sky because the goddess Artemis, in a fit of anger sent Scorpius to slay Orion. Artemis was the goddess of the hunt, the moon and nature. In the winter, followers of Artemis were ritually sacrificed to Orion. Orion, stung by the scorpion could not be saved even by Asclepius, the god of healing, and so Orion disappears from the sky as Scorpius appears. ------------------------------------
Orion. It resembles a man wearing a belt and a sword; you will see three stars in a line like a belt, one close under the end one of them for the hilt of the sword, three in a vertical line below for the sword itself, and three close together above for his head, besides four single stars representing his arms and legs. If you hold your staff up against the sky to make a line with the sword and the middle of the head, and carry that line on with your eye through two big stars to a third, this third one is the Pole Star. The special value of Orion is that he can be seen in the southern half of the world as well as the northern, whereas the Plow cannot be seen in the southern half of the world at all.
¡¡ The belt of Orion shines brightly with the light of its three stars, each one 1500 light years from Earth.
The sword of Orion hangs from his belt, lit up by the Great Orion Nebula.
The three stars which make up the belt
in the constellation Orion¡ªAlnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka¡ªare commonly
called the Belt Stars.
¡¡ ¡¡ Alnitak is 9 times the diameter of our Sun, Alnilam 16 times, and Mintaka 6.5 times the diameter of our Sun. (The above illustrates the relative sizes of the stars, and not their positions.)
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