Examples of using "Sternbild" in a sentence and their english translations:
- The Great Dog is a constellation.
- Canis Major is a constellation.
Canopus is the brightest star in the constellation Carina.
The galactic center is in the constellation Sagittarius.
Antares is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpio.
- Ophiuchus is an outspread but not very prominent constellation.
- The Serpent Bearer is an outspread but not very prominent constellation.
One constellation that most people know is the Big Dipper.
- The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major.
- The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius, in the Great Dog constellation.
The constellation Scorpio is hard to observe because of its southerly position from Central Europe.
- Sirius is the brightest star visible in our night sky. It's in the Great Dog constellation.
- Sirius is the brightest star visible in our night sky. It's in the constellation Canis Major.
A black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy in the constellation Virgo, which is 50 million light-years away, has been calculated to have a mass equal to that of 3 billion Suns!
The apparent brightness of our Sun is much greater than that of the star Rigel in the constellation Orion because it is so close to us. However, if both objects were placed at the same distance from us, Rigel would appear much brighter than our Sun because its absolute brightness is much larger.
One night in 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe saw what he thought was a brilliant new star in the constellation Cassiopeia. (We now know he was observing a supernova.) In 1604, a second supernova was observed. These discoveries caused scientists to seriously question Ptolemy's theory that all stars were contained in an outermost sphere of the universe that never changed.