Asterism

by Lewis Carroll

An asterism is a group of bright stars that has its own name, different from the name of the constellation these stars belong to. For example, the Dipper, Orion’s Belt, and the Pleiades are asterisms in the constellations of the Big Dipper, Orion, and Taurus, respectively.

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