Orion
Properties:
Right Ascension: 5h
Declination: 5°
Best Visibility: January(latitudes between +85 degrees and -75 degrees at 9 PM)
Symbolism: Orion the Hunter
The earliest known representation of Orion was found on a prehistoric ivory carving in a cave in current-day Germany. The Babylonians named Orion the "True Shepherd of Anu". Anu is the chief god of the heavenly realms. In Ancient Egypt, the stars within Orion represented the god Sah. In Greek myth, Orion was a relentless hunter who wanted to hunt every animal in the world. He was stopped by a scorpion sent by Gaia and him and the scorpion, now believed to be the constellation Scorpio, were placed into the night sky.
Orion is home to the widely known Orion's Nebula. This nebula is one of the most important structures in possibly all of astronomy because it is helped us understand so much about how planets form, how protoplanetary disks form and behave, and how gas within the confines of interstellar space interact with nearby stars.
Two of the prominent stars within Orion are Betelgeuse and Rigel. Betelguese is a massive red supergiant that is fairly bright in our sky. It is likely to explode and go supernova within the next 100,000 years and when that happens, people on Earth will be able to see it in the sky as it will likely be brighter than our Moon for about a day. Rigel is a blue supergiant that like Betelguese, is going to go supernova relatively soon.
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